OCL Query Window

[David OD]

In the past I have used Borland's Together UML product.  While I much prefer EA, there was one feature in Together that was very useful.  It was possible to open a window into which you could type OCL (with intellisense features) in order to perform queries against the model.  While not the original intention of OCL, it is very useful!

[Geert Bellekens]

David,

EA has a search feature that allows you to search for element either by building the query with the GUI, or writing an SQL query to query the database directly.

The latter is very powerful, I use it all the time.

Geert

[David OD]

Geert

Yes, I have used that myself on the odd occasion.  However an OCL evaluation tool can do more than simply list the items.  I have used it before to run counts of certain classifications of elements in a model (for sanity checking transformations).  I could also return columns of data like a mini reporting system.

However I will go back and look again at the existing search features.

Thanks.