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Suggestions and Requests / Generalization ambiguity on reverse engineer

« on: October 18, 2004, 07:13:29 am »

When reverse engineering a large project that contains classes of the same name but different package, I get a lot of ambiguous generalization link prompts, asking me to select the correct generalization link. It would be helpful if Enterprise Architect could resolve these using the imports in the .java file.

Is this functionality that is likely to make it's way into a future release of Enterprise Architect.

Regards

Jamie Cash
International Financial Data Services

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General Board / UML 2.0 XMI Export

« on: November 05, 2005, 03:10:42 am »

Is it possible to get Enterprise Architect to export uml 2.0 compliant XMI, as I am using AndroMDA with EA to generate session beans from the model.

AndroMDA doesn't seam to pick up the links between services and exceptions in the xmi that is outputted from Enterprise Architect.

I have been told by the AndroMDA team that this is a specific issue with Enterprise Architect, and was hoping that I could work around this by generating UML 2.0 XMI.

I am using EA version 5.0 build 772.

Regards

Jamie Cash

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General Board / entity image

« on: March 07, 2005, 04:06:45 am »

I need to sterotype my domain model classes as entity in order to instruct Andomida to create the Hibernate classes for them, but they then show up as the entity symbol in the class diagram. Is it possible to change the image associated with a sterotype?

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Uml Process / Re: Abstract Classes and Interfaces

« on: March 07, 2005, 06:27:59 am »

An interface can have static members though. The only real difference is that an interface cannot contain implementation just a set of methods that should be implemented, although an interface can contain 0 methods and can be used as a container for constant data.

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Uml Process / Re: How UML Modeling Tools can help a project ???

« on: October 21, 2004, 02:52:25 am »

From the projects that I have worked on, I have proven time and time again that a project that has analysis, design and implementation phases takes about the same amount of time end to end as a project that has just analysis and implementation phases, but the project that uses all 3 phases is far easier to maintain and has fewer bugs than a project with only 2 phases. Another benifit in using UML to design the project is that you will end up with a lot of techinical documentation after the project is completed. As far as tools is concerned, if you want the design and development stages to be tightly coupled and iteritive it is necessary to use a UML tool that supports full round trip engineering, most of the free tools such as Argo and Jude do not support this but EA and RRose do.

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Uml Process / Re: Delete from Diagram doesnot deletes from Proje

« on: October 21, 2004, 02:35:01 am »

All of the UML tools that I have used do not delete the class from the project when it is deleted from the diagram. This ensures that once a class is defined it can be used on many diagrams (both class and sequence) and compile errors are not introduced by classes being removed from a diagram.