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General Board / camel case for java attributes generation

« on: February 06, 2008, 06:23:02 am »

Hi, I just installed the latest EA release, transformed a PIM into a java model. Private class attributes in the PIM were correctly transformed into javabeans-compliant attributes. Unfortunately, camel-case generation for accessor methods did not happen! The second word initial is lower-case. This used to work right out of the box. I looked at the java transform templates and did not see the camel-case macro used anywhere. How do I fix this? I know nothing about EA's scripting language. Sample script please? :)
Miguel

The current script under 'Attribute_AsProperties:

%if classStereotype=="enumeration"%
%endTemplate%

$type=%CONVERT_TYPE("Java",attType)%
%Properties(attName,$type)%

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General Board / Generating a sequence diagram  for a web app

« on: October 02, 2007, 06:42:38 pm »

The EA feature of executing source code, tracing the execution, and generating a sequence diagram automatically seems extremely promessing. But can we use it for a java web app? It seems problematic to run a use case that starts with a call to a servlet, without a servlet container runtime. Can EA support this? Would it help to use the EA Eclipse plugin?

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General Board / Re: Importing XMI from Visual Paradigm

« on: May 07, 2007, 05:47:08 pm »

Any thoughts anyone?

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General Board / Importing XMI from Visual Paradigm

« on: May 06, 2007, 07:46:12 pm »

Hi,
I've created a data model (from an Oracle database) in Visual Paradigm that I want to export to EA. The VP export generated an XMI 2.1 file that looks ok. But when I import it from EA, I just get an empty folder in the project browser. I'm using the default XMI settings. Can anyone help?
Thank you.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG Integration for Eclipse

« on: October 09, 2007, 08:20:08 pm »

Thank you Roy and Aaron for your help.

Miguel

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG Integration for Eclipse

« on: October 09, 2007, 06:41:32 pm »

The feature you are pointing me to is the runtime sequence diagram generation. As I was saying, it seems problematic to use this for a web app: how would EA provide the necessary web container? Is it possible to point to such a runtime (e.g. Tomcat)? My concern here is to include web controller classes (not JSPs) in the generated diagram.
Compile-time sequence diagram generation seems easier, but it doesn't seem to be supported by EA (standalone or MDG plugin).

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG Integration for Eclipse

« on: October 09, 2007, 05:17:51 pm »

Thank you, I got it now. You mention a Help file for the MDG Integration in Eclipse, but for some reason it's not showing in my Eclipse Help contents, although other third-party products are showing as expected.
Now, for my real question: I'm on a quest to find the modeling tool with the best sequence diagram reverse engineering capability. I know that the standalone EA product supports this as a runtime feature, where you must build, debug, and step through the code as it executes, to finally be able to generate a sequence diagram (as shown in an online demonstration). That process seems complex, and more to the point, I need to reverse engineer web apps, so I'd need to somehow add a servlet container environment to that setup. Doesn't look like a practical approach.
So, I'm looking at compile-time sequence diagram generation. Several competing tools support it, so I was wondering if MDG supports it (I didn't find that option when looking around my Eclipse MDG installation). Any feedback greatly appreciated.  

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / MDG Integration for Eclipse

« on: October 07, 2007, 09:38:58 pm »

Hi,
I need to reverse-engineer a java application into a UML model (for documentation purposes). I downloaded the trial version of the MDG Integration for Eclipse. It installed all right, but the only thing I could do from the EA menu in my Eclipse Europa was to import an existing model. I didn't find any way to generate a UML model / diagrams from my existing java classes. I was not able to find any related user documentation on the Sparx website either. Will appreciate any input.