Automation Interface

[piwi]

Hi,

just a question from a newby.
Is there a possibility to update a diagram/model via the automation interface?
I only found the description to retrieve model information from the model and no description to write to it.

We want to be able to reverse engineer from different sources
and are using our own UML profiles.
We already did so for Rose models and want to use EA as a modeling tool as well.
Thanks in advance for your answere.

Best regards
peter

[gsparks]

Hi,

I regret that at the moment the current automation interface is readonly.

There are plans to provide a writeable inteface in the very near future - work has already begun. We have a lot of requests for supporting different languages, reversing/generating etc., and want to make it possible for people to write their own parser/generators - either for use in-house or as a 3rd party add-on for EA.

Hope this explains the current situation,
Geoff Sparks

[Matt]

the addition of a write automation interface to EA will add even more capabilities to this program and will allow a full extension of the program and allow EA to interface to far more tools - great news!

[CJ]

G'day folks,

We use Gupta Team Developer (aka SQLWindows) on our project, and just briefly tested the automation interface.  Great job, it works A-1.

Hopefully, when time permits, we can write our own code generator (with the SQLWindows CDK) to create snippets of code from our models.  (And, down the line, updating our models from our code!  Very nice.)

Keep up the great work.