| TLA | Three Letter Abbreviation |
| ADTF | Analysis & Design Platform Task Force |
| CBD | Component Based Development |
| CCA | Component Collaboration Architecture |
| CGN | Code Generation Network |
| CIM | Computation Independent Model |
| CORBA | Common Object Request Broker Architecture |
| COTS | Commercial Off The Shelf |
| CWM | Common Warehouse Metamodel |
| DSL | Domain Specific Language |
| DSM | Domain Specific Modeling |
| EAI | Enterprise Application Integration |
| ECA | Enterprise Computing Architecture |
| EDOC | Enterprise Distributed Object Computing |
| EJB | Enterprise JavaBeans |
| IDE | Integrated Development Environment |
| IDL | Interface Definition Language |
| IIOP | Internet Inter ORB Protocol |
| J2EE | Java 2 Enterprise Edition |
| MDA | Model Driven Architecture |
| MDD | Model Driven Development |
| MDSD | Model Driven Software Development |
| MOF | Meta Object Facility |
| OAL | Object Action Language |
| OCL | Object Constraint Language |
| ODP | Open Distributed Processing |
| OMA | Object Management Architecture |
| OMG | Object Management Group |
| ORB | Object Request Broker |
| PIM | Platform Independent Model |
| PSM | Platform Specific Model |
| QVT | Query Views Transformations |
| RMI | Remote Method Invocation |
| RM-ODP | Reference Model of ODP |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol |
| SWT | Software Widget Toolkit |
| UML | Unified Modeling Language |
| XMI | XML Metadata Interchange |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
