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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: cschlaefcke on May 11, 2005, 01:18:53 am

Title: Anoher EA Datamodel Question
Post by: cschlaefcke on May 11, 2005, 01:18:53 am
I just started working with EA (It´s a great tool, by the way!). First thing I wanted to do is to model a database model as an ER-Diagram. Export the diagram to a ddl and create the model classes from the ER-Diagram. And that´s where I stuck: I cannot find a way to extract classes from the datamodel. Is it possible anyway? Thanks for any hint/help!

Regards,

Chris

Title: Re: Anoher EA Datamodel Question
Post by: thomaskilian on May 11, 2005, 07:20:48 am
Chris,
although I have only peripheral interest in this topic and I might have missed new developments in EA: AFAIK you have to export the tables, modify the XMI and re-import the classes in order to get an analoguous class model. Alternatively you could use the automation to write a database engineer like ROSE has one.
Title: Re: Anoher EA Datamodel Question
Post by: Bruno.Cossi on May 11, 2005, 10:09:00 am
Hi,

you may want to have a look at the model transformation functionality in EA5.0. I have not played around with it yet, but this is exactly the kind of thing that it could be used for.

Bruno
Title: Re: Anoher EA Datamodel Question
Post by: cschlaefcke on May 11, 2005, 11:18:19 am
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Hi,

you may want to have a look at the model transformation functionality in EA5.0. I have not played around with it yet, but this is exactly the kind of thing that it could be used for.

Bruno

Isn´t the current release 4.51? Is the 5.0 available for testing? Where can I get it?

Regards,

Chris
Title: Re: Anoher EA Datamodel Question
Post by: thomaskilian on May 11, 2005, 12:46:32 pm
It's free to test for registered users only  :-[
Title: Re: Anoher EA Datamodel Question
Post by: Bruno.Cossi on May 11, 2005, 02:25:18 pm
Hi,

yes, that is truth. I would expect though that once 5.0 is released officially (hopefully any day now) that the Trial version will reflect that, too.

Bruno