9. The method as defined in claim 8 , wherein the archiving and purging data comprises purging archived data when a purge property is set as true, and archiving data when the purge property is not set as true.
8. A method for using a graphical data archive meta-model for flexible data archival, the method comprising: a computer analyzing application content of an enterprise application; the computer creating a data archive specification model based on the application content of the enterprise application, wherein the data archive specification model is based on the graphical data archive meta-model and is created in a general-purpose visual modeling language; modeling archive data based on the data archive specification model using one or more graphical modeling tools, wherein the graphical data archive meta-model comprises an archive operation schedule including instructions for: archiving and purging data; indicating when to start execution of an archive procedure; indicating what is to be archived; and identifying what to archive and how much to archive; and the computer transforming the data archive specification model to generate a second data archive specification.