XMI Export to Oracle tools

[j33@1]

My situation. The DBA would like to use Oracle Designer to create the the physical database model. I have a logical class model which he is going to use as a starting point. I exported the package in question. First thing that came up is that the DTD is in UTF-8 while the .xmi is in windows-1251 charactersets. This was easily changed in the files themselves. Oracle Designer doesn't seem to accept xmi import but Oracle Developer does. However, Oracle developer chokes with a null reference when parsing the xmi file with or without the DTD being set.

Anyhow, I need to get a package from EA into Oracle Developer or preferrably Designer. Any suggestions?

TIA

[Gary W.]

We ran into a similar situation, and unfortunately Designer cannot import XMI and will never accept XMI (only bug fixes are going in from this point forward).  

There was a post earlier this year on 'going from Designer to EA':
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1079499965;start=10#10

Maybe you can talk to that fellow to talk about doing the 'reverse'.  

Incidentally, I *was* about to write a  parser from EA output to Designer API, but decided against it, as I have to convert from Object-Oriented Analysis Class Model to Relational ER model anyways.  I just did the ER from scratch and did periodic updates to the Designer model at milestones in the project plan.


Gary

P.S.  
I don't understand why you mention Developer as this won't get you anywhere.  Forms/Reports cannot use the model information anyways.