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SebastienRoy

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self-association limitation
« on: June 30, 2004, 08:53:41 am »
Hello,
I am currently evaluating EA for the purpose of generating database-creation scripts from a datamodel written in UML. The language of the generated script is specific of the project so I cannot use the buit-in generators. So, an interesting way to generate the scripts is to first create the model, export it into an Xmi file and then to transform it in the target script by using xslt stylesheets.
First I found EA very well designed for my purpose, especially because of features like constraints, tags on classes and attributs, which can be used to modelize some very specific needs, like meta-properties...
Unfortunately, I encountered a major limitation in Enterprise Architect : self-associations cannot be bi-directional (even tought there is no such a limitation in the UML standard). The datamodels I have to modelize contain a lot of self-associations.
Is there a plan to suppress this limitation in a future release of Enterprise Architect?

Thanks

Sebastien