Importing and Exporting from/to System Architect

[AndyJ]

Hi everyone,

Has anyone had any success importing and exporting from EA to System Architect or vice versa?

System Architect is expecting XMI 1.0 (UML 1.0 or 1.3) which is selectable as an option in the EA export... However:

1. I'm losing all attributes from SA models; and,
2. I'm losing all associations from EA models.

Looking at the XMI, on first glance, it looks like EA is not exactly matching the XMI 1.0 standard.

I've been trying to manually correct the resulting XML, but, even with a simple model containing only three classes, I haven't been successful yet.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and created a workaround?

[Geert Bellekens]

Ah, the infamous XMI hell

As you have experienced the XMI "standard" has been implemented a little bit different by each tool vendor, making it useless for the better part.
In the past I had to convert Rational Rose models to EA, and I ended up doing most of the transfer using XMI, but I also wrote a little program that talked to the API's of both applications to get the missing parts converted.
You might need to go down that same path I'm afraid.

Geert