Diagram of the EA Object Model

[José Farinha]

Is there any publicly available diagram of the EA Object Model?
For instance, something of an .eap file displaying the contents of the manual at https://sparxsystems.com/resources/user-guides/15.1/automation/enterprise-architect-object-model.pdf.

Maybe that would be the best way to get acquainted with the OM.

I've searched through the user guide library and EA's installation folder but could find any.

TFYA + best regards

[Geert Bellekens]

I think you can reverse engineer the interop DDL (but I never tried it)

I've always just used the help.

Geert

[MatthiasVDE]

I found this one some years ago, it's nog complete but good enough to start with.

https://imgur.com/a/S2QhVOy

[qwerty]

Something like that is also in the help (IIRC). RE works just fine and gives you a real model.

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[pvickers]

I have also been looking for such a diagram...In the reference library and "Help" I have found diagrams such as this:
https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.1/automation/element.html

But I have not yet found a higher level one such as MatthiasVDE has provided the link to.

I could really have used that diagram about 5 years ago!
 

Thanks,
Perry

[José Farinha]

I think you can reverse engineer the interop DDL (but I never tried it)

I've always just used the help.

Geert

I've done it, but since it required a disassembly the result is highly "flat" (no generalizations, no associations, etc.).  I was looking for a genuine UML diagram.

Thanks for the hint, anyway.

Best regards

[José Farinha]

Something like that is also in the help (IIRC). RE works just fine and gives you a real model.

q-

Thanks.
Don you mean reverse engineering the interop.EA.dll?
If so, I've done it. I got a flat, non-UML diagram :-(

[Richard Freggi]

Sorry if I missed the point... but for me it was super easy.
I opened my own *eap file with sparx using database reverse engineering.  Made a ERD diagrams and dragged all tables into it.  Took me 3 minutes, I had the full object model.  I can post if someone tells me hpow to upload pictures without signing up to any web service.  But really it's 3 minutes work.
Sparx 1310 professional edition.

[qwerty]

@José: Yes, there is no diagram. And if you look at the single classes you realize that it's pointless. There are no relations between them. Just look at the most important ones like Repository and Element. They only realize Interfaces which are derived from IDual interface (which finally have the same content as the classes themselves). You can use the import for reference, though. Finding an operation and its signature is probably faster than consulting EA's help.

What you could do is to re-work the import by replacing single typed attributes by actual associations with role names. EA could have done that, but it seems they are not able to do that. Nothing a script couldn't do to fix that...

@Richard: The ERD is another view. It's additional to what José is asking.

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[Geert Bellekens]

Sorry if I missed the point... but for me it was super easy.
I opened my own *eap file with sparx using database reverse engineering.  Made a ERD diagrams and dragged all tables into it.  Took me 3 minutes, I had the full object model.  I can post if someone tells me hpow to upload pictures without signing up to any web service.  But really it's 3 minutes work.
Sparx 1310 professional edition.

The difference is that this method gets you the database structure (also useful) but not a diagram of the API object model.

Geert

[Ian Mitchell]

There's a beer at the next EA User Group for anyone who comes with this. It would be REALLY useful...

[MatthiasVDE]

I started with modelling the Object Model, based on the interop.dll and the reference information.
But it becomes too big to fit on one diagram 

[qwerty]

Maybe one beer is not enough...

q.