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Suggestions and Requests / Support for Oracle Packages

« on: May 03, 2007, 12:50:47 am »

Hi,
In a post back in Autumn '06, it was suggested that the ability to handle Oracle packages might be introduced into EA. This feature would be very useful to us. Has anybody heard any more about when this might be included?
TIA
Malcolm

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General Board / Reverse engineering C# with code branches

« on: July 21, 2009, 12:34:17 am »

Whenever we reverse engineer our C#, the EA model remembers the path where the code was imported from. This is causing us problems as we develop using SVN with a mainline trunk and branches. At review time, with the code still on a named branch, it may be necessary to import the code to keep the model up to date. When subsequent users want to synchronise their branches, they have to manually change the path within the model, so that is pointing to the correct path on their local disc. Ideally, we'd like to have an environment variable or similar which points to the the root of the source code (for a particular branch), and then the model work relative to this point. Is this possible in EA?

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General Board / Oracle Packages

« on: April 19, 2007, 06:52:57 am »

Hi,
Any more news on when the ability to handle Oracle packages might be introduced?
TIA
Malcolm

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General Board / Path for Code Generation

« on: March 05, 2007, 08:32:17 am »

Hi all,
Can anybody advise me whether it is possible to change where code gets generated to for different people based on an environment variable?

Some people in my team want to generate to their C drive, whilst others need to use the D partition. It would be nice to be able to set a variable, say CODEDIR which acts the root, and then get EA to automatically generate classes to a path relative to the namespace root folder. I've set up the "default code path" to be %CODEDIR%\ but this just seems to cause the code to be generated to a flat folder structure, which doesn't help.

Any ideas??

Malc

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General Board / Re: Showing Persistence on class diagrams

« on: February 06, 2007, 01:37:34 am »

Thanks for the advise. We've created a new stereotype and this works well. It does beg the question of why have a "persistence" field for a class though. I would of thought that, having provided it, we should be able to use it and have the differentiation shown on a diagram. Oddly enough, when I press the Help button on the Class properties window, the screenshot omits the Persistence item. Is this a fairly new addition that perhaps isn't fully developed yet?

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General Board / Showing Persistence on class diagrams

« on: February 05, 2007, 06:07:58 am »

Hi,
Is there an easy way to visually show in class diagrams whether a class is marked as persistent or transient? Currently we've resorted to using different colours, but I'm sure there must be a more automated way!

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.

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General Board / Re: Modelling .Net classes in EA

« on: December 06, 2006, 01:25:10 am »

Thanks for the advice, it worked a treat, albeit it took a while!

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General Board / Modelling .Net classes in EA

« on: December 05, 2006, 09:34:54 am »

Hi,
I'd like to show on my class diagrams some of the .Net classes that my C# code will be using. Other than manually creating classes in EA and adding the particular method signatures on that I'm interested in, is there an easy way to import the .Net classes I want (e.g. System.IO.Ports.SerialPort)?

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General Board / Re: EA and PVCS

« on: December 01, 2006, 06:31:46 am »

Hi,
I'm having the same problem at the moment. Did you manage to find a solution?

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General Board / SCC Integration with Serena (PVCS) Dimensions

« on: November 21, 2006, 08:19:55 am »

Hi,
We're using EA 6.5, and I wanted to integrate it with Serena Dimensions v9.1 using SCC. Unfortunately, when I try to configure it, I get the following error :

The valid set IDE_PROJECTS does not include an entry for the IDE EA500.
Error : SCC_E_CONNECTIONFAILURE
etc

Anybody know how to resolve this?

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General Board / CM'ing models - Comparison with Rational Rose

« on: August 31, 2006, 07:04:11 am »

Hi,

I'm about to set up an EA model for my team but I'm not sure how best to go about arranging the model so that CM is easy.

We're using v6.1 Corporate Edition and I've experimented with the concept of controlling packages and using security to implement locks, but it seems a bit confusing.

In the past we've used Rational Rose, and controlled the various elements in the Logical and Component views as .cat and .sub files in CM. Additionally, the overall model files (.mdl) were controlled. This meant that if a new package was required, the mdl needed to be checked out. Alternatively if a user just wanted to make changes at the class level, only the cat files needed to be checked out. At any time, a developer could sync to the latest versions in CM and get an up to date model.

On the face of it, it would seem logical to CM the EAP files and the XML package files, but as I see it, the locking info is held within the EAP file itself. I don't want everybody to have to concurrently checkout the EAP to update the lock (within EA) as well as checking out the XML file (so that the file is writeable in Explorer).

Can anybody suggest a way to successfully implement what I (think I) want? For info, we may be using CVS for version control in the short term, but ultimately we plan to use Dimensions.

Thanks in advance

Malcolm

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Bugs and Issues / Unable to view Foreign Key dialog when model diagram is readonly

« on: April 23, 2008, 01:25:04 am »

In my data model, when a diagram is checked out for edit from CVS, I can right click on an association between two tables and view the Foreign Key dialog to define the PK/FK relationship.
However, if I then check the diagram in, I am no longer able to request the dialog from the pop up menu, although I can still see the Attributes and Operations dialogs. Why is this??

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Modelling .Net classes

« on: December 05, 2006, 09:32:16 am »

Hi,
I'd like to show on my class diagrams some of the .Net classes that my C# code will be using. Other than manually creating classes in EA and adding the particular method signatures on that I'm interested in, is there an easy way to import the .Net classes I want (e.g. System.IO.Ports.SerialPort)?