Reverse Engineering

[lutherbaker]

I am interested in purchasing a UML tool - and I really like the  fact that EA is written natively. It just flies.

I'm used to using TogetherJ and in TogetherJ, we could create diagrams on one screen that crossed package boundaries. In other words, I could create 15 classes and interfaces in 7 different packages, and I could view their relationships on one screen.

I downloaded EA and I imported the java directories for my latest project. But when I try to view the diagrams, the "src" directory is placed in the Use-Case node in the Views tree ... and I have to drill down the src directory - only to find that each package appears alone ... sometimes containing only 1 or 2 - and no graphic, uml representation of their relationship to other classes.

Does that make sense? I want to import a project that spans several packages and I want to see the relationships between the classes across those packages in one diagram.

com.project
com.project.core
com.project.test
com.project.util

How do I import this project and see the inheritance, containment, etc relationships of the classes contained therein on one diagram?

I don't really mind dragging things to a common diagram. As long as it will stay synced. Does this seem like an outrageous request?

Thanks,

-Luther

[TrtnJohn]

You've tried just dragging from the explorer into a diagram?  When you drag a class into a diagram as a link all of the relationships are maintained automatically.

[lutherbaker]

I will try that.

I just wonder if I could have configured it differently so that on importing the java classes, their relationships would be indicated on a single diagram.

Many Thanks,

-Luther