Hi Jack,
Based on all the unknowns around UML interoperability and also based on challenges my teams faced when using UML to represent the business abstractions while implementing complex enterprise software transformations in the past, I have built a new set of modelling languages following MDA and MOF from OMG that aim to solve the interoperability problem. The Parametric Computation Independent Modelling Language (PCIML) - Focus on capturing the pure business DEFINITION abstractions (Structure, Behaviour and Rules) using 10 constructs. I also built a modelling tool that is implemented using the Top Braid Suite and SWP which captures the business abstractions and is capable to generate UML Class Diagrams, Statechart Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams and BPMN. The tool also generates the ontology and SPIN rules models based on the definition. Connected to PCIML, I also created a language to capture the DESIGN abstractions that is called Parametric Platform Independent Model Language (PPIML) and another to capture the DEPLOYMENT abstractions called Parametric Platform Specific Model Language (PPSML) The creation of PCIML, PPIML, PPSML was essential to capture the abstractions in a way that a transition engine that I build called ESTCA (Event, State, Transition, Condition and Action) can respond to events of any type of technology that interacts and implements the defined domain. I am currently looking for early adopters and people that want to test and give feedback on this new technology. Anyone interested please contact me on [email protected] Best regards, Guil Scomparim From: Peter Denno Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [topbraid-users] Re: Trying to import EA UML into TBC - No go Hi Steve, I suppose every vendor's XMI contains many vendor-specific tags, but they can either be ignored or filtered out in interoperable XMI exchange. They are inconsequential to the exchange, and I have never heard of them being a problem. Best regards, Peter On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Steve Ray <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Peter, I’m surprised to hear you characterize UML model exchange as being problem free. EA makes heavy use of what it tags as “ea-extensions” which I doubt align very well with MagicDraw. - Steve Steven R. Ray, Ph.D. Distinguished Research Fellow Carnegie Mellon University NASA Research Park Building 23 (MS 23-11) P.O. Box 1 Moffett Field, CA 94305-0001 Email: [email protected] Phone: (650) 587-3780 Cell: (202) 316-6481 Skype: steverayconsulting From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Denno Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [topbraid-users] Re: Trying to import EA UML into TBC - No go 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 UK +44 7788 561308 US +1 336 283 0606 On 15 Nov 2014, at 16:07, Jack Hodges <[email protected]> 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. -- -- 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. 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