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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: jhsachs on October 31, 2009, 11:17:52 am

Title: How to make a class diagram with dependencies
Post by: jhsachs on October 31, 2009, 11:17:52 am

I'm evaluating EA as a documentation tool. Right now I'm trying to create a diagram that shows the dependencies among a group of Java classes and interfaces.

I'm getting a diagram that shows all of the types I've imported, but no dependencies at all.

Here's what I've done:

1. Create a new project with technology <default> and name Class.

2. Delete the default elements Class Model, System, and Frameworks.

3. Create a new diagram of type UML Structural / Class.

4. Use Project / Source Code Engineering / Import Source Directory to import all of the source files. (They are in two directory trees, so I must use the command twice.)

5. Expand the source tree in the Project Browser and drag each directory's group of types into the diagram pane.

Now I have a diagram that shows all of my types, but none of the dependencies.

I found an option setting that looked like the key to the problem: "Create dependencies for operation returns and parameter types" in the Options box's Source Code Engineering tab. When I checked it and built the project again, though, the diagram came out just the same.

One of my co-workers is a licensed user of EA, and has been helping me; when he tries to build a class diagram this way it works. But we can't figure out what he's doing different from me.

At his suggestion I double-clicked a class that should have dependencies and displayed the Object Instance Properties box's Links tab. In his case it displays the dependencies; in mine, it's empty. EA does not appear to be collecting information about the dependencies at all.