Jack,
Pretty much every UML tool says that their output is valid according to UML 2 specification. However, the specification is complex and imprecise, so there are differences between these implementations. As a result, I don’t believe XMI tool interoperability trully exists. I remember seeing tests several years back where people would try various imports and exports and report on the results – quite poor. Things may have improved, but not enough it seems. Here is a more recent article http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/uml-25-do-you-even-care/240163702 that says “With a few exceptions in the SysML space, <UML> tool interoperability has stayed at the "marchitecture" level since the advent of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools in the late 1980s”. Eclipse’s EMF project has been stopped. With this, we will not be making any updates to the EMF import capability. I think the work Ralph wrote about would be the best way forward to a more reliable generally applicable UML import capabilities because the import scripts are “open” and, thus, could be adjusted by the user where needed to accommodate idiosyncrasies of different tools as they manifest themselves in different models. Given your immediate needs, I hope that either EA XSLT or the Python script you found work out for you. Regards, Irene From: topbraid-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:topbraid-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Hodges Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2014 11:08 AM To: topbraid-users@googlegroups.com Subject: [topbraid-users] Re: Trying to import EA UML into TBC - No go Irene, Thank you for the reply. FYI, the EMF link you provided is dead. You are correct, EA claims that their export cannot be read in Eclipse but the quote I found on the second link you provided is slightly different: "Enterprise Architect supports a UML 2 export, which produces an XML file valid to the OMG’s UML specification. Nevertheless, it is not possible to open it with an UML editor of Eclipse without any modifications, because the Eclipse implementation of the UML2 metamodel differs in some places." Anyway, that isn't terribly important. I had already tried the first link and the page for one of the downloads is dead so I could not take that path. I had not seen the second link before and will try that solution out. I have also found a python approach that converts XMI to UML2 and will try that as well. On Thursday, November 13, 2014 12:12:56 PM UTC-8, Jack Hodges wrote: I have a set of UML models created in Enterprise Architect that I'd like to import into TBC. I have read the various statements here and in the help files, etc. I have tried exporting from EA to most of its possible file types using 'export model to XMI'. I tried 'export type' XMI 2.1 as well as UML 2.4.1 (XMI 2.4.1), Ecore, UML 2.0 (XMI 2.1), and MOF 1.4 (XMI 1.2). The question I have is: how do I convert the XMI file into the UML format TBC requires to perform the import. The documentation doesn't spell this out at least as far as I have been able to tell so far. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include Enterprise Vocabulary Network (EVN), TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Insight, SPARQLMotion, SPARQL Web Pages and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Suite Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to topbraid-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
