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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: mylesJ on February 20, 2006, 01:10:58 am

Title: Read source controlled XMI with EALite
Post by: mylesJ on February 20, 2006, 01:10:58 am

It would be very useful if source controlled XMI packages can be read by EALite. Its frustrating at present because although EALite is a great value add for us its losing some of its appeal because it cannot view source controlled XMI packages.

We now have to maintain a separate EA project for the developers and remember to update it with the latest XMI packages. This means that the architects and the developers could be looking at different data if the separate EA project is not kept up to date.

What I would like is that on running EALite a developer could just point it at the source controlled XMI packages in order to view them. That would be great.

Title: Re: Read source controlled XMI with EALite
Post by: «Midnight» on February 20, 2006, 03:58:01 am

I'll add the first "me too!"

David

Title: Re: Read source controlled XMI with EALite
Post by: mylesJ on February 28, 2006, 02:32:07 am

Ok. I have an updated suggestion for this. Rather than EALite having the functionality in-built to read XMI packages how about a standalone command-line utility that you can point at a folder full of XMI packages which then reads them and creates an EAP project file.

This way, any EALite users can participate with source controlled XMI packages. They simply refresh their local copy of the XMI packages with the latest baseline from source control, run the command-line converter utility to create the project file from the XMI packages, then fire up EALite to read it.

Title: Re: Read source controlled XMI with EALite
Post by: Paolo F Cantoni on February 28, 2006, 03:20:52 am

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Ok. I have an updated suggestion for this. Rather than EALite having the functionality in-built to read XMI packages how about a standalone command-line utility that you can point at a folder full of XMI packages which then reads them and creates an EAP project file.

This way, any EALite users can participate with source controlled XMI packages. They simply refresh their local copy of the XMI packages with the latest baseline from source control, run the command-line converter utility to create the project file from the XMI packages, then fire up EALite to read it.

This is good thinking, Gunga Din...

Paolo