Sparx Systems Forum
Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Thomas Mercer-Hursh on October 26, 2006, 02:58:43 pm
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After poking at EA off and on for a little while, I am now ready to tackle some real work. In the first project I have imported the schema of an existing database to create a bunch of <table>s under the database in Component Models. I would now like to select individual <table>s and create an equivalent regular class so that I can supplement the data with behavior and add in the classes which will not be persisted. It seems like one should be able to do this and to create a link so that one will know that one is the expression of the other, but I'm not finding a procedure or tool that does this. Am I missing something? Where else should I look?
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Have a look at the transformation support in EA. (http://www.sparxsystems.com/EAUserGuide/index.html?mdastyletransforms.htm)
There currently isn't a built-in transformation to do what you want. A simple tranformation would copy everything except for the stereotype and language. To do this create a new transformation and edit the default class template by adding "stereotype" and "language" to the TRANSFORM_CURRENT macro. (http://www.sparxsystems.com/EAUserGuide/index.html?transformingduplicateinforma.htm)
From there you'll also want to ignore all operations, remove stereotypes from attributes and associations and do some type mapping.