Feedback + Requests

[han]

I just downloaded EA trial and I'm impressed

Very likely that we'll buy this one!

A few questions/feedback/requests points:

a) Are licenses floating? That is... 4 licenses means 4 concurrent users?

b) XMI export is confusing (select Rose to get XMI 1.1...)

c) How replication is supposed to work with MySQL is beyond me... Can MySQL serve as a master and then have disconnectedreplicas?

d) Adding attributes and operations should be easier - i.e. editing directly on the diagram (of course, EA would need to parse and validate the input.)

e) How am I supposed to express that a parameter to an operation is an array? Many tools supports the "myop(cool: MyType[]) : MyReturnType[] syntax.

Of course, MyType and MyReturnType are defined elsewhere in the model, I do not want to make MyType[] a new type, just an array of an existing type!

In what way are arrays supposed to be stored in XMI anyway? :-/

f) UML 2.0 support is going to be a must in Q3 2004 for us. Including action semantics. Any plans to support UML 2 within this time frame?

Thanks for any help!!!

[Tjerk]

Hi Han,

b) Can you explain what you find confusing? XMI import and export works great for me (only using EA). If you search the forum, you can also find experiences using XMI to export model data from EA to Rose. Not sure what you mean with the part between the brackets.

c) Replication is not supported for non-MsAccess (EAP) files, this means no support for replication when using MySQL database repository;

d) Might be nice to have (but F9 for opening the attributes dialog works fast too, F10 for operations), I've seen collegues of mine intuitively trying to achieve the same by clicking on an element on diagrams;

e) For the returntype you can tick the Return Array option, but for the parameters you for the less appealling option of selecting your type and manually add two brackets to the type; XMI export of the first results in <UML:TaggedValue tag="array" value="true" />, the second results in:
<UML:TaggedValue tag="type" value="String[]" />.

f) UML 2.0 support is on the Future Plan list of Sparx (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=FutPlans;action=display;num=1055822692).

Greetings,
Tjerk