Kermeta is a Domain Specific Language dedicated to metamodel engineering. It fills the gap let by MOF which defines only the structure of meta-models, by adding a way to specify static semantic (similar to OCL) and dynamic semantic (using operational semantic in the operation of the metamodel). Kermeta uses the object-oriented paradigm like Java or Eiffel.

A MDK (Model Development Kit) is a set of Kermeta code that goes with a given metamodel. Each of the MDKs provides functionalities dedicated to the metamodel it applies to. (Ex: UML, Ecore, Traceability, yourDomainMetamodel, ...)

In this document we will focus on Kermeta MDK. This MDK applies to Kermeta metamodel itself. Ie. it provides functionalities to manipulate Kermeta programs.

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Kermeta is an evolving software and despite that we put a lot of attention to this document, it may contain errors (more likely in the code samples). If you find any error or have some information that improves this document, please send it to us using the bug tracker in the forge: http://gforge.inria.fr/tracker/?group_id=32 or using the developer mailing list (kermeta-developers@lists.gforge.inria.fr)

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