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<h2 id="ecore">Ecore</h2>
<p>Ecore is the core (meta-)model at the heart of EMF.  It allows expressing other models by leveraging its constructs.  Ecore is also its own metamodel (i.e.: Ecore is defined in terms of itself).
</p><p>According to Ed Merks, EMF project lead, "Ecore is the defacto reference implementation of <a href="/facts/Object_Management_Group/SNpN8n9U">OMG</a>'s <a href="/facts/Meta-Object_Facility/7MDs1aA8">EMOF</a>" (Essential Meta-Object Facility).  Still according to Merks, EMOF was actually defined by OMG as a simplified version of the more comprehensive 'C'MOF by drawing on the experience of the successful simplification of Ecore's original implementation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
</p><p>Using Ecore as a foundational meta-model allows a modeler to take advantage of the entire EMF ecosystem and tooling - in as much as it's then reasonably easy to map application-level models back to Ecore.  This isn't to say that it's best practice for applications to directly leverage Ecore as their metamodel; rather they might consider defining their own metamodels based on Ecore.
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Acceleo/Re8HRbuL">Acceleo</a>, a code generator using EMF models in input</li>
<li><a href="/facts/ATLAS_Transformation_Language/TzdkcEXw">ATL</a>, a model transformation language</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Connected_Data_Objects/np09JBdr">Connected Data Objects</a> (CDO), a free implementation of a Distributed Shared Model on top of EMF</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Generic_Eclipse_Modeling_System/34MR4BPS">Generic Eclipse Modeling System</a> (GEMS)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Graphical_Modeling_Framework/oSJSG7hR">Graphical Modeling Framework</a> (GMF)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_Eclipse_Modeling_Framework_based_software/3crnBffH">List of EMF based software</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Model-driven_architecture/IY0daKp1">Model-driven architecture</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Xtext/bEJf0EPS">Xtext</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/emf/">EMF project page</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Eclipse Modeling Framework - Interview with Ed Merks". jaxenter.com. 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2013-11-13. <a href="https://jaxenter.com/eclipse-modeling-framework-interview-with-ed-merks-100007.html" target="_blank">https://jaxenter.com/eclipse-modeling-framework-interview-with-ed-merks-100007.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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