--- title: Java Metadata Interface slug: java-metadata-interface qid: snapshot: enwiki-001154962921 content_hash: license: CC BY-SA 4.0 source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1154962921 tags: [23468805, 23603337, 26220375, 28699009, 31682881, 33062124] --- # Java Metadata Interface > [!note] Provenance > Snapshot `enwiki-001154962921` · content root `…` > Derived from · Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 Given that metadata is a set of descriptive, structural and administrative data about a group of computer data (for example such as a database schema), Java Metadata Interface (or JMI) is a platform-neutral specification that defines the creation, storage, access, lookup and exchange of metadata in the Java programming language. __TOC__ Given that metadata is a set of descriptive, structural and administrative data about a group of computer data (for example such as a database schema), Java Metadata Interface (or JMI) is a platform-neutral specification that defines the creation, storage, access, lookup and exchange of metadata in the Java programming language. __TOC__ ==External links== JSR 40