Import from Rational Rose

[Scott Curtis]

Hi,

Is it possible to import an existing project from Rational Rose (or any other tool for that matter - MagicDraw, Poseidon4Uml etc)?

If not, will it be a feature in the future?

Luckily I don't have a project in Rose at the moment but the company I work for does use Rose and I want to suggest they move over to EA. First, though, I wanted to check if it would be an easy move (hence making it more likely) or something they wont even consider (hence making me sad as I really like EA!  )

thanks
- scott

[sparks]

Hello,

EA supports import and export of UML model elements using the XMI 1.1/UML1.3 protocol.
This is supported in Rose by way of the free Unisys XML tools that can be downloaded for Rose on the Rational Website - you will need to download and install this add in first.

To use the Rose export to XMI - after installing the Unisys product, go to the Tools/Export to UML menu item and export
Run EA and select the XML file from the step above to import from.

You can also export from EA (check the Use Rose/Unisys format box when doing so) and import into Rose.

Warning: This is not a perfect process -
   Diagrams are not 'officially' supported in the XMI spec, so the diagram appearance is not always the same in either tool
   The Rose/Unisys tools seem to have periodic changes in format - which is a pain to keep up to date with
   The Rose/Unisys tools do not explicitly honor the UML13.DTD, so validation is difficult

Having said that, people are using this to move information into and out of EA and Rose.

Hope this explains the situation

Paul Mathers

[PhilR]

I have sucesfully imported a model from Poseiden UML.  I got all the classes OK but no diagrams.  Luckily it was a simple matter to drag and drop the classes onto a new EA diagram.

Even without the diagrams this was a time saver.

[mp]

I'm a bit disappointed that I was unable to import diagrams from existing MagicDraw project. To be more precise, diagrams with correct names appear in the workspace, but they are empty, while log file looks like this:
"Adding diagram: User Menu
Adding diagram: Menu Bar
Adding diagram: User Menu Source
Adding diagram objects
Resolving connections
Add generalization
Error: Unknown Gneralization Source or Target
Add association
..."

Unfortunately this information does not allow to say, have diagram objects been added or not, and where exactly the problems found.