Hi,
I'm quite new to EA so I'm not sure if what we want to do is possible, perhaps there is another way to do this.
We are exporting our database classes to an XMI file, and then importing it into EA to create a Class Diagram. This works fine to create a new model from scratch, but the problem is we would want to export the classes after every new release of the system, and then the existing Class Diagram should be updated with the changes when we import it into EA.
The problem is our XMI export doesn't have the xmi.id's as GUIDs, so EA changes the ids during the import. So the next time when we do an import of the latest XMI export, the classes are created as duplicates, because the ids do not match.
Is there a way to do this by using XMI imports, or should we have a look at other ways to do this?
I may just add, there are a lot of classes in the diagram, so we had to do the layout by hand to make neat and tidy, so the main problem is we don't want to have to redo the layout every time after we've done an import, so the classes in the existing layout should just be updated.
Thanks,
Stephan