EA 6.5 XMI not read by Rational Software Architect

[IsabelleY]

Hello everybody,

I'm a convinced user of EA for sometimes now. I'm working for a client who has Rational Software Modeler, and was hoping to be able to interchange the models using XMI 2.1 now available in EA 6.5.
While EA imports the RSA model very well, I did not find the way to re-import my models in RSA (I do want to keep my UML 2.0 models, in particular the fragments in the Interaction diagrams).

Does somebody achieved this UML 2.0 exports to RSA?

Thanks very much in advance,

Isabelle.

[CapJo]

Do you have disabled "Enable EA Full Roundtrip"

Disable this bahavior and try again.

[IsabelleY]

Yes I did, I tried also with the EA Tagged Values excluded.
The problem is that RSA does not import .xmi files as such, but .uml2 files. I tried to set this extension to the file generated by EA, but RSA generates the following error:
org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.Resources$IOWrappedException: Package with uri 'http://schema.omg.org/spec/XMI/2.1' not found.
I also did not find any way of forcing RSA to use the UML_EA.DTD.

[thomaskilian]

There has been a recent discussion around RSA (where it was mixed with RR). Maybe you can search for the thread.

[Eve]

Try generating to UML 2.0 (XMI 2.1) instead of UML 2.1.  Rose may be able to import that better.

[mklink]

Most likely it will not work, since RSA as an eclipse based tool will expect an XMI file which describes the UML model with EMF (the eclipse meta model), whereas Sparx EA uses XMI to describe the UML model with MOF.

All those different standards can be fairly confusing and there are numerous people who are waiting exactly for this kind of bridge to the eclipse world.

Regards
Markus

[IsabelleY]

Indeed, it does not work, I tried many combinations before asking the question on the forum.

But anyway thanks for the explanation. I suppose such a bridge should come in the (let's hope near) future.