We use Together 6.3 for Eclipse together with AndroMDA, and my advice would be to stay away from it.
The XMI export includes such lovely features as: - array types are not exported as arrays, but as simple types - if you use more than one stereotype on an element you'll end up <<Stereotype1;Stereotype2>> in the XMI - can't manipulate AssociationEnd properties (ie "ordered", use stereotypes, etc) Among others... Ant the fact that the "model" is stored in Java files imposes serious limitations on what you can model. I can honestly say that about half the development time we've spent developing templates / metafaçades has been dedicated to writing workarounds for bugs in Together's exportation. This may or not apply to other versions of Together... Regards, Luís > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Peter Friese > Sent: quinta-feira, 12 de Maio de 2005 7:28 > Cc: andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Andromda-user] XMI standard? > > > Chad Brandon wrote: > >> I evaluated Together about four years ago and was > >> REALLY impressed with it's useability. > Yeah. it looks and feels great. Best usability in town, IMO. > > >> > > Not sure why he didn't evaulate those, I think (not > positive) that Peter > > Friese (one of the developers) uses Together at work, maybe > he could > > tell you more about how he thinks together works with > AndroMDA (since he > > also uses Magic Draw for AndroMDA development he might be > able to tell > > you how the two compare). I'm pretty sure he had to write > some XSLT to > > fix the XMI for Together however. > > > > Peter, you were/are using Togther with AndroMDA right? > Well, we're using Together Designer 2005 on a project where > we're also > using the AndroMDA Hibernate / Spring cartridges. The > following things > are important conerning Together Designer (TD): > a) looks and feels great > b) produces horrible XMI. I don't know what why - they even use the > Netbeans MDR to perform the ouput of XMI, but in the end it is quite > unusable. I had to write my own XMI export filter which was > quite some > work. At this time, my own export filter only supports class diagrams > but can be extended to support all other diagrams as well. > c) There is no way to import the AndroMDA profiles. I had to write my > own profile modules for TD. This was quite easy, since it > just means to > write some XML files (they use a plug-in concept similar to Eclipse). > Now I have additional icons on the toolbar for entities, services and > the relations between those elements. I also have > color-codiing for the > diagrams (entities get painted in green, servces in blue, > etc.) This is > VERY nice :-) > d) There is no way to seperate your models. At least at the > time of this > writing. I am going to talk to some Borland guys today to see > how we can > solve this problem and will let you know about the result later. > e) Some advanced stuff that is needed for AndroMDA cannot be modelled > with TD. For example, it is impossible to put a stereotype on the > parameter of a method, something which is used in the Spring > cartridge. > This was one reason why I asked Chad to extend the Spring > cartridge in a > TD compatible way ;-) > f) A VERY positive point about TD is that it writes all model > elements > to a separate file which makes versioning quite easy - you > can even use > it in a team of more than two people :-) > > In terms of feature completeness, I'd recommend using > MagicDraw. It has > the best support for AndroMDA, since all the AndroMDA commiters are > using it. The diagrams look really ugly IMHO, but that's not so > important after all. An additional benefit: they use XMI as > their native > format, so you do not have to export the model to XMI. > > If you are interested in taking a look at the XMI exporter, > just drop me > a note. > > Peter > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes > Want to be the first software developer in space? > Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393&alloc_id=16281&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Andromda-user mailing list > Andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ids93&alloc_id281&op=click _______________________________________________ Andromda-user mailing list Andromda-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/andromda-user
