David,
UML tool interoperability can be viewed in terms of "model exchange" or the
more demanding "diagram exchange." Most UML tools have no problem with
model exchange. I'd be very surprised if I couldn't read the OP's EA XMI
into MagicDraw. Eclipse is an exception -- it doesn't do model exchange as
well as most commercial tools.
UML diagram interchange is another story. It isn't widely supported. The
reputation of "UML interoperability" is tarnished for lack of this
capability that is important to many users.
Best regards,
Peter
On Saturday, November 15, 2014 12:58:29 PM UTC-5, David Price wrote:
>
> Hi Jack,
>
> You’ve bumped into one of the dirty little secrets of the OMG wrt UML - it
> is not an interchangeable form of representing knowledge. It seems XMI can
> be used in too many ways and UML is too complex a language for most to have
> implemented the two properly and get interchange to work in the real world
> (even ignoring UML and XMI version mismatches between tools) .
>
> The OMG has a Model Interchange Working Group[1]that has been trying to
> remedy that problem for nearly 6 years now, but still not there yet. That
> said, maybe there’s a pipeline through the tools involved in that process
> that can get you to a file TBC can import. The eclipse UML2 wiki[2] might
> help.
>
> Note to TQ staff - we should probably update the eclipse UML2 link to be
> [2] in the help pages.
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> [1] http://www.omgwiki.org/model-interchange/doku.php
> [2] http://wiki.eclipse.org/MDT-UML2
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> On 15 Nov 2014, at 16:07, Jack Hodges <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>>
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