Tutorial ? EA for Dummies :)

[Pfischel]

Hi, I recently purchased EA as a suggestion from a friend.  I am having a hard time trying to figure out the steps I should take from start to finish in order to use this program effectively.

Do any of you have suggestions?  So far what I find is from an already built project leaving me kind of empty as to how they got from there to here so to speak.

Thanks,
Pfischel

[RoyC]

When your friend recommended EA to you, what kind of problem or area of work were you discussing? And what edition of EA did you buy?

EA supports a wide range of types of user, some of whom might not actually do anything other than read what someone else has done (like a person having a lift in a friend's car), whilst (at the other end of the scale) others get into the automation interface and tinker with the internals (like an automotive engineer).

In the Help, have a look at the Start UML Modeling section, especially the Quick Start - Create a Project and Quick Start - Project Tasks topics. When the forum community know more about your work needs and objectives, you will probably get a lot of directed help; they are an extremely talented and supportive bunch out there.

Sparx Systems are also working on a range of task-specific ground-zero resources to release on the website. Keep an eye open for those.

[Geert Bellekens]

they are an extremely talented and supportive bunch out there.

Roy stop, you're making us blush  

Geert

[Whistler]

I have the same problem, i.e. how to set up an EA project to mirror my C++ VS 2008 code - I also have MDG Link. There seem to be so many ways of building the link, such as merging and importing source directories and establishing the VS link with different sections in the browser tree and so on, and they all give you different consequences when you try to maintain project after code changes. I write code, but it feels stupid that I cannot find my way around this parallel universe of options.

[Stefan Block]

Hello Pfischel,

I really got (successful) into modeling with EA recently. What really led my way was the book: "Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML" by Doug Rosenberg and Matt Stephens. I got two major things out of that book: First they offer a very straight path from use cases to code, the ICONIX process. No matter what language or framework you are using. I guess this is what you are asking for. Second, they do it with EA.
So it is not an EA manual, but describes (part of) the most important solutions EA offers, how to use them and how to connect them. A path through, so to speak.
Apart from that it is the most "unambigiuous" ;-) book i ever read about Software modeling.

I hope this helps,
Stefan

Hi, I recently purchased EA as a suggestion from a friend.  I am having a hard time trying to figure out the steps I should take from start to finish in order to use this program effectively.

Do any of you have suggestions?  So far what I find is from an already built project leaving me kind of empty as to how they got from there to here so to speak.

Thanks,
Pfischel

[Thelonius]

Sparx Systems are also working on a range of task-specific ground-zero resources to release on the website. Keep an eye open for those.

Now that would be welcome!

[Whistler]

Thank you Stefan for your book recommendation - I have placed the order. I do have a reasonable knowledge of uml but I do have difficulty identfying classes. Fingers crossed! Also thank you Thelonius for the hope of those examples I need.

I have a s VS solution that I want to bring into EA and I really do not know how to organize the package(s)/views etc. beyond a simple merge.

John

[Whistler]

Stefan,

I now have the book "Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML" by Doug Rosenberg and Matt Stephens.

It is very nicely written, I am sure it will help.

John