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Suggestions and Requests / TexInfo documentation format

« on: April 18, 2006, 12:16:10 am »

Hello all:

I think it would be nice for EA to generate documents in TexInfo format, as an alternative to RTF.

TexInfo is the document system of choice in GNU projects and generated texinfo documents can be later edited with simple editor tools.  External tools will render this files into beautiful PDFs.
Free Texinfo tools can be found on both Windows and Linux OSs.

Best Regards
Rafael

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General Board / Does MDG Integration for Eclipse support C++ ?

« on: July 11, 2007, 07:33:30 am »

Hi forum,

I'm playing with the evaluation version of MDG Integration for Eclipse (prior to v2.0). I'd like to use this link for Eclipse C++ projects. It seems that the EA link only recognizes Java projects.  I would consider the purchase of such plug-in, in a positive case. Am I'm doing something wrong ?

By the way, it was not said anywhere in the brochure but this software works with a native Eclipse running under Linux and EA running under Linux/CrossOver windows emulator.

Cool !

Rafael

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General Board / EA on Linux

« on: April 17, 2006, 06:14:18 am »

Just wanted to say "hats off" to the EA team  

I usually launched EA on Windows but recently moved to Linux.

I have just installed EA on Linux and expected the worse. However it works perfectly and so far without errors. The response time is - of course - slower but still very usable given the constraints of my machine.

For your reference:
- CrossOver 5.0 Standard Demo edition.
- MDAC2.7, IE6.0SP1 and DCOM95 as stated in the instructions
- Debian testing distribution. (etch)
- PIII@800MHz, 384MB RAM

The whole installation process has been very slow but without any errors or warnings.

Best Regards
Rafael

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General Board / Error importing Automation XML model file

« on: September 19, 2002, 05:20:25 am »

Hi all:

I'm trying to import the Automation model published by Spark Systems into my EA (b504) but it shows a lot of errors.

Here is what I'm doing. Can anyone help me ?

Thank you very much
Rafael



1) Create a new project called test.eap from EABase.eap

2) Goto the Views Incon in the workspace panel (it is supposed to be the current model)

3) Click right and select "Import model form XML"

4) Select the "Automation XML.xml" file from my folders and leave the deault options set.

5) Click "Import"

Then some error mesagges boxes appear

* The first one "Data type conversion error"

* The second "You can't add or change a record because a related record is required in table t_package" shows 8 or 9 times

* Finally shows "ERROR: could not find package to insert diagram into"

The workspace view shows 8 more models or projects, all empty:

"Code Examples"
"Connector"
"Diagram"
"Element"
"ElementFeatures"
"Overview"
"Project Interface"
"Repository"

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General Board / Re: XML Schema modelling and generation

« on: September 27, 2002, 12:49:27 am »

Have you actually done that ?

I've tried to use HyperModel with an XMI file exported with EA with no success. I've tried every combination.

Can you tell me the steps to export from EA and import into HyperModel ?

Rafael

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General Board / Re: XML Schema modelling and generation

« on: September 06, 2002, 03:05:59 am »

You have a UML profile in the Sparks System Home page.

However it is only limited to visual modelling. There is no DTD or W3C Schema generation capabilities in EA yet.

David Carlson's excellent book "modelling XML applications with UML" describes flexible mapping strategies in great detail,
including:

- default generation strategies when no stereotypes are specified
- mapping to DTDs and W3C schema
- strict and relaxed mappings, etc


It would be so nice for EA to follow this way ....

In fact, I started to do some visual XML vocabularies modelling but had to stop because I have to generate the schema by hand as well. Not being able to do it under EA with forward and reverse engineering, it just doubled my work.

Lazyness is a virtue in software engineering.


Rafael

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General Board / Re: Robustness Diagrams

« on: September 05, 2002, 12:18:35 am »

Good point !

Now that I think of it, Conallen's book is about Web applications. He adoptes this approach in analysis because he maps boundary objects as HTML pages and forms and controller objects as servlets or ASPs that may handle entity objects.

In this framework, his "rules" makes more sense.

Rafael

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General Board / Re: Robustness Diagrams

« on: September 04, 2002, 05:29:58 am »

A coment on your diagram:

According to what Jim Connallen says in his book "building web applications with UML", page 132:

- Actors can only interact with boundary objects
- Entity objects can interact only with controller objects
- Controller objects can interact with any objects

If this is true, then you need controller objects between your boundary and entity objects. These carry out the processes outlined in your message labels. Entity objects would be merely persistent data objects with no behaviour.

Hope you find it useful
Rafael

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General Board / Re: How to link diagrams to use cases?

« on: August 08, 2002, 08:06:41 am »

There is an easy workaround

1) Create an Use Case in the Use Case View. I do it under the Use Case Model Package.

2) Select the use case in the project workspace window, click right and you'll be able to  create any Activity or Sequence Diagrams you like belonging to this use case.

3) In the diagram where you draw the actors and the use case oval simply drag the desired activity or sequence diagrams icons from the project workspace windows . A small icon appears on the diagram and you can esasily navigate to these sequence or activity diagrams.

I hope this is what you expected.

Rafael

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General Board / XML Schema generator ?

« on: August 06, 2002, 09:59:34 am »

Hi

Is there any plan to generate XML schemas from UML models using the XSD profile for EA ?

I have tried the hiperModel web application in http;//xmlmodeling.com with a very very simple model and it did not work with the package I exported using EA.

I have tried several combinations, including XMI 1.0 format as stated in their web pages.  

Rafael

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General Board / Re: C++ code generation

« on: June 25, 2002, 08:51:19 am »

In my humble opinion, it is betterto leave these methods empty.
You may wish to write some checking code before getting or setting an attribute.

Otherwise, I see no difference in declaring the attribute as public.

Rafael

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General Board / Newbie simple question in EAExample

« on: June 13, 2002, 07:31:59 am »

Hi all,

First of all, I must say that I'm very happy with EA and didn't finish the trial period to buy one licence.

I've been browsing the EAExample project, but I don't know to put those fancy links to other diagrams in the same project. I've tried hyperlinks with no success. Anyone can help me ?

Best Wishes
Rafael