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Enterprise Architect => Uml Process => Topic started by: dangel on May 12, 2015, 06:57:19 pm

Title: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: dangel on May 12, 2015, 06:57:19 pm

could someone help me finding tools/ any tools used to convert or export or extract UML data structure from or to EA,

thanks

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: qwerty on May 12, 2015, 07:31:12 pm

What format do you prefer? French fries or mashed potatoes?

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Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: dangel on May 12, 2015, 07:36:59 pm

xml, or any format

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: qwerty on May 12, 2015, 09:05:20 pm

You don't like Package/Im-/Export/XMI ?

q.

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: dangel on May 13, 2015, 07:47:35 am

Not the case, but I trying to show the useful of this mechanism regarding any other tools, because I am doing a research on this area, and need to  garbing as many as possible tools to highlight which tools is more sufficient and why?

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: Eve on May 13, 2015, 09:01:29 am

In most cases, XMI is the only practical choice for converting UML between tools, even with its obvious deficiencies. There's still the choice of XMI version (different tools support different versions), and some tools implement imports directly from another tool.

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: dangel on May 13, 2015, 11:05:19 am

which tools please, do you have any idea ?

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...), and some tools implement imports directly from another tool.

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: VKN on May 13, 2015, 11:49:00 am

EA primarily supports XMI 1.1 and XMI 2.1 formats for the Export/Import.

You may want to search for other tools supporting similar formats for their round trip purposes.

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: dangel on May 13, 2015, 11:53:45 am

Yes I am working to find some tools that support exporting data from UML, just  I asked if somebody knows any plugins/tools used in this regard.

Thanks

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: Eve on May 13, 2015, 12:30:31 pm

As an example, our Visio importer gets more information than the Visio XMI export.

We also have a dedicated emx importer (although that's still a variant of XMI) and custom handlers for various exporters when we are importing XMI (mostly for diagram information) I know some other tools do the reverse with our XMI.

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: dangel on May 13, 2015, 01:36:31 pm

Thank you  Simon M for your information,, it was very good idea.

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....I know some other tools do the reverse with our XMI.

like what please give me another tools  please?

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: Eve on May 13, 2015, 02:21:33 pm

Sorry, even if I could remember (which I don't) I avoid mentioning competitors on this forum.

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: dangel on May 13, 2015, 02:32:27 pm

No I am not talking about competitions !

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: qwerty on May 13, 2015, 03:29:52 pm

I know that Rational Rose had an XMI im-/export from Unisys. No idea what RSA is doing nowadays (guess with it's 7 Gig base installation t will poop XMI along with martian formats easily).

Also there was a recent question about Papyrus which did not seem to work well  for reasons (I supposed myself) named by Simon above. (found it http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1431436494/1#1)

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Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: smendonc on May 14, 2015, 01:39:35 am

EA can directly import from MagicDraw's mdzip file.  I believe the reverse is true as well i.e. Magic Draw can pull in an EA model, however I've never tried that direction.

Title: Re: UML tools for extracting from EA
Post by: ken.norcross on May 15, 2015, 06:15:28 am

google bpm-x for a tool to convert models from one tool to another