In order to enhance the understanding, comparison and integration of architecture developed under different architecture frameworks and tools, and to promote the sharing and reuse of architecture data, a new method, named meta-model based methodology of architecture modeling, was proposed. Based on the idea of model driven architecture (MDA), this method presented a transformation approach from architecture meta-model to modeling languages with the extensible markup language (XML) format. On the other hand, the modeling method under the meta-model specification was proposed and three mapping specifications mentioned in the method were designed. To verify its feasibility, the IDEF3-based modeling methods of operation rule model was designed, and the main rule-named modeling primitives and patterns based transformation was analyzed.