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Enterprise Architect => Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools => Topic started by: Molto Mike on May 20, 2004, 01:54:30 pm

Title: Open source add-ons?
Post by: Molto Mike on May 20, 2004, 01:54:30 pm

Hi,

I am happily using EA for some years and was wondering whether there is/will be/should be an open source corner somewhere, where people can develop add-ins, scripts, templates, profiles, you name it.

I have seen similar development for instance at Perforce (SCM), where the company runs the open source server themselves.

I am sure that many people (myself included) would be happy to share some scripts or stuff like that.

Does this exist already and it slipped by me?

If not, wouldn't something like this make a lot of sense?

Should/would sparks run it or would "we" simply start a sourceforge project?

What do people think?

Mike

Title: Re: Open source add-ons?
Post by: Stephen on May 24, 2004, 02:03:49 am

I'd second this.

Sourceforge would work, but I think we might get more buy-in if it could get its own forum directly linked to Sparx.

Steve

Might get me to tidy up a few of my utils

Title: Re: Open source add-ons?
Post by: thomaskilian on May 25, 2004, 01:27:10 am

Add my vote. I'd like to see this along with efforts started here: http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=general;action=display;num=1077009102

Title: Re: Open source add-ons?
Post by: angel-o-sphere on May 25, 2004, 08:24:29 am

Why not extending that idea to a "market place"?

Probably something where you could vote about features or collect funds for certain features?

I have a lot of need for tools where I would spend some money.

E.g. a extended CSV import/export, where I can import relations. Simple example:

type name stereotype type name stereotype rel-type rel-name stereotype
usecase From usecase To dependency "" <<extend>>

Anyone has an idea if that would be possible by accessing teh database directly? Or is the data in danger of getting messed up? E.G: what is happening with GUIDs?

I myself would love to contribute some stuff, however I only work with java ...
In my own company we only work with linux/Mac OS X and Java, here at my customer side we can not install VB or true executables but can access the network from unix machines.

So a DB access layer with methods like: createClassifier(...) and createLink(...) would be cool I think.