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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Is the RTF generator the way to go for EA?
« on: August 16, 2005, 04:31:30 am »
I just wanted to add my general agreement to this thread.
Document generation always seems to be the poor cousin in all the UML Modelling tools I have tested - but is the main purpose for which I need such a tool.
In my previous organisation, we used a competing product to EA which allowed rtf in model element descriptions. At the click of a button, this was pushed out to an external 'word processor' application - so that the tool did not need to replicate this functionality. The tool was simply able to display (to a large extent) the rtf produced.
However, I agree rtf is not the way forward - but at the moment probably the only sensible option. I too would like to see an open xml based document format - e.g. OASIS used by Open Office...
(I am currently just reviewing EA. In general I am impressed - but not being able to produce adequate documentation from a model could kill it for me).
Document generation always seems to be the poor cousin in all the UML Modelling tools I have tested - but is the main purpose for which I need such a tool.
In my previous organisation, we used a competing product to EA which allowed rtf in model element descriptions. At the click of a button, this was pushed out to an external 'word processor' application - so that the tool did not need to replicate this functionality. The tool was simply able to display (to a large extent) the rtf produced.
However, I agree rtf is not the way forward - but at the moment probably the only sensible option. I too would like to see an open xml based document format - e.g. OASIS used by Open Office...
(I am currently just reviewing EA. In general I am impressed - but not being able to produce adequate documentation from a model could kill it for me).