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General Board / Choosing best XMI version

« on: August 22, 2005, 06:24:38 am »

I'm working with an open-source product (ArchGenXML for Plone Archetypes) that generates specialized code from UML model XMI files.  ArchGenXML purportedly handles XMI versions 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2.  However, it has problems with EA's XMI in all three of these versions.  I'm going to "fix" ArchGenXML (a Python program) so that it correctly handles EA-exported XMI (an issue of standards interpretation, no doubt).  It makes sense to do this for only one version of XMI.

My question for the community/Sparx is: which version of XMI, 1.0, 1.1, or 1.2, is implemented the best in Enterprise Architect, in terms of standards compliance, stability, and other factors?

--Gary Kopp

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Uml Process / Modeling a Python Program

« on: August 23, 2005, 09:22:27 am »

I'm looking for some UML usage advice.  A Python program typically has some top-level attributes and functions (outside any class), plus any number of true OO classes.  I'm trying to determine the best way to model this in UML.  My current idea is to define the top-level non-class attributes and functions (more or less the "main program") as a stereotyped class, and model the program's contained classes as normal UML classes connected to the stereotyped top-level container as nested classes.  Is that a sensible approach for Python-specific modeling?

--Gary Kopp

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG Tech for Python install

« on: August 21, 2005, 08:03:12 pm »

>(MainMenu)->Tools->Customize->Menu Tab->Reset >button

>Hope this helps.

Yes it does.  Thanks!  First time I've run into that after several years of EA usage.

--Gary

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: MDG Tech for Python install

« on: August 21, 2005, 03:50:57 pm »

I gathered that from somewhere else.  However, I'm feeling very stupid, because I can't find an add-ins menu anywhere in my EA UI!  It's not like I'm a newbie to EA, so I'm really perplexed now.

--Gary

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / MDG Tech for Python install

« on: August 19, 2005, 04:57:15 pm »

I have EA Corporate v5.00.768.  I just installed the MDG Technology for Python distribution, and its DLL now lives on my hard drive.  But I have absolutely nothing showing under MDG Technologies in my project's resource view.  Wasn't the installation supposed to have registered it?  Actually, looking at my registry (XP SP2) I see it does seem to be correctly registered.  So why isn't it showing up in the resource view?

--Gary Kopp