Index_M

M

McKeefry, Hailey Lynee, 242

made item, 354

magnetic media, 66

magnitude, 354

mainframe, 354

maintainability, 354

"Making Application Ends Meet," (Apicella), 223

Makoto, Murata, 215

mandatory, 354

manual or automated process, 3, 38

manual integration, 295

Markov, 355

Markovian analysis, 124

markup, 206, 355

Mars Climate Observer, 1

marshal, 355

Martin, Wolfgang, "Second Wave, The," 223

Master Car Builders Association, 212

measurable reuse, 85

medical industry, 49, 57

Medicare, 14

Merant, 176

mereology, 8, 355

meronomy, 355

message, 355

message brokers, 232, 282, 355

message-based systems, 29

message-oriented middleware (MOM), 231, 232, 355, 356

messages in integration, 295

meta, 355

Meta Groups, 224

"Metacrap: Putting the Torch to Seven Straw-men of the Meta-utopia" (Doctorow), 271

metadata, 87-107, 227, 293, 355

case study on metadata application design, 97-106

and data, 87, 88

development of, 4

flexibility of metadata-driven systems, 106-107

history of, 87-93

"active" dictionary, 89

common warehouse metadata interchange (CWMI), 93

computer-aided software engineering tool (CASE), 89, 90

data definition language (DDL), 89, 91

data dictionaries, 88, 89

data manipulation language (DML), 89, 91

extensible markup language (XML), 91-92

metaobject facility (MOF), 93, 94

resource definition framework (RDF), 93

schemas, 91

standard generalized markup language (SGML), 91

unified modeling language (UML), 93

XML metadata interchange (XMI), 93

XML schema definition, 92

levels and types of metadata, 93-94

semantics in metadata, 94-95

application design, 95

packaged applications, 95

use of metadata architectures, 96-97

generating code, 96

non-self-describing content, 96-97

metadata review, 175

metametadata, 355

metaobject facility (MOF), 93, 94

metapattern, 355

Metapattern, Context and Time in Information Models (Wisse), 61

metaphysics, 8, 356

method, 356

Meyer, Bertrand, Object Oriented Software Construction, 258

Microsoft, 173, 215, 246, 255, 257, 298

Microsoft Smart Tags, 109, 120-123

Middle Ages, 6

"Middle Management Enterprise Integration Software's New Home on the Net" (Girard), 224

middleware, 356

middleware upgrade, 283-284

mind to matter relationship, 8

Minsky, Marvin, 125

Mitsubishi, 12-13

model-based approach, 141

model-theoretic semantics, 356

model/view/controller (MVC), 27-28, 356

models of data. See data and object modeling

module size, 72

MOF. See metaobject facility

MOM. See message-oriented middleware

MRP (manufacturing resource planning), 356

Mueller, Eric, 127

multiple accessors, 74-76

multiple inheritance, 356

Multum, 276-277

MVC. See model/view/controller

mycophagist, 356

mysticism, 8