Import COM Object into EA Diagram

[Rich_Brockway]

All,

I have a COM object for which I'm writing a convenience wrapper. Since this component is freely distributable, I have the blessing of the author. Can I directly import this into an EA diagram? Essentially, I want to have the "original" imported classes to use to generate  "starting point" classes for my wrapper.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

I would appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Rich

[Rich_Brockway]

Sparx,

I would really appreciate it if I could have this acknowledged. Is this something that can be easily done now? Is this a feature for a future release? Is this not even under consideration?

Thanks,

Rich

[Rich_Brockway]

All,

Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks,

Rich

[SpoonsJTD]

You'll need to write some automation to reverse-engineer the type library into an EA model.  If the COM object is simple, it would probably be easier to enter by hand.

I started a .NET C# type library wrapper a while back which would simplify things, but I haven't had a chance to finish it up.  If there was a lot of need for such a thing, I could put together something to finish the reverse engineering of type libraries.  I have been waiting in the hopes that EA will get plug-in support so I could package it that way instead of an external app.

[SpoonsJTD]

I just made my way up to the latest news section and saw that add-in support has been added.  Excellent news!  This will jumpstart several mini-projects I had started for EA, including type library importing.

[Rich_Brockway]

That sounds great!

RB