Java standard library support

[richlysakowski]

Hi …

I am testing EA for modeling in my advanced Java design and development class, and subsequently for modeling software for development within my company.  

There no explicit support for the Java “String” basic reference type (class) library?  This is a fundamental Java class.  Bruce Eckel, the author of “Thinking in Java” says very explicitly that “String is certainly the most commonly used class in the java language, along with some of its associated classes and utilities.”

There are about two dozens methods in the standard Java String library and adding and configuring them into EA manually is a huge chore.  :-/

In EA, I see many possible but confusing alternatives that might be used, but the documentation doesn’t help choose what to use for the standard Java String class library.  It looks like the Stereotype attribute could be configured to create a String class, if I get something wrong then the Java code generation will not be correct, i.e., conform to the standard definition of the language.  

Why doesn’t EA conform to the standard conventions of the Java language?   I have trialed this product on two other occasions, and both times I hit a roadblock with a standard programming concept that is implemented in non-standard or overly complex ways.  I stop using the EA product because I have a job to do quickly and I don’t have time to configure your EA product to conform to program language industry standards.

I need to be able to import the standard Java class libraries and take advantage of them in my modeling work.  

Can someone please send me or point me to a standard configuration setup for modeling with standard Java libraries in UML in EA, and thence generating standard Java code from the UML diagram in EA?  


Thank you.

Best Regards,
 
Rich Lysakowski

[KP]

The Import Binary Module command will allow you to reverse-engineer .jar files.