exproting to rose

[Martin Terreni]

I tryed to export XMI files to RationalRose.
I checked to use ROse format but it doesnt work.

help

[Eve]

How did it fail?

[Martin Terreni]

rose doesnt recognize it as any kind of rose file, and when trying to import it any way it doesnt recognize the XML.

[Hans J Micheelsen]

You cannot export dirctly to Rose. EA cannot export MDL files, which is Rose's proprietary format. You need to install an XMI plugin to Rose. It can be found at Roses home page (although not easily    ).
The plugin will add a menu item under Tools, called "UML 1.3 XMI addin".
But it is not flawless. At first sight the diagrams look alike, but if you inspect them you will soon see that details have changed. Especially state charts are changed. E.g. messages are moved around. And in use-case charts you can expect to see actors become very big.
Especially if you export from Rose to EA and then back to Rose, you will se many differences.
PS I use Rose 2003.06.00.436.00 and EA 4.10 737. With 739 its much worse.

[mikewhit]

Looks as if there's now a mismatch that wasn't there when Sparx originally developed this functionality.

Or the plugin might have changed its behaviour; it does say UML 1.3 so it's a little behind the times, it might even be the main culprit.
If so, you should report to Rose, and hope their support is as good as Sparx's !

Are there any vendor-neutral "reference" XMI diagrams for test purposes, that both EA and Rose should handle correctly ? It's possible to have two different interpretations of the same "standard" !

I guess you should find the simplest possible diagram that reproduces your problems, and send it to Sparx with screenshots, version numbers and generated XMI/Rose code.