hello,
I have recently installed the SDE plugin for Eclipse. However, I cannot find out how to reverse-engineer my java code into a class diagram.
Could you please help me sort this out…
Thanks!
Hi Pesho,
Thanks for your post. With SDE for Eclipse (SDE-EC), you need to have an existing project inside Eclipse, then right-click on the project and select Open SDE-EC in the popup menu.
After you start SDE-EC, you will be able to run reverse engineering for Java by Instant Reverse or Java round-trip engineering.
Instant Reverse is an one-off engineering that will overwrite all duplicated models every time you run it, while round-trip engineering will update changes in code to models. And round-trip engineering gives better tracing between code and models.
Please be reminded that Instant Revers is supported in Standard Edition or above and round-trip engineering is supported in Professional Edition or above.
More details about Instant Reverse and round-trip engineering from the following links:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/ec/demos/reversecode/instantreverse.jsp
http://content.europe.visual-paradigm.com/media/documents/sde41javaug1/html/012_Java_Round_Trip_Engineering/012_Java_Round_Trip_Engineering.html
If there is any further inquiry, please feel free to contact me.
Best regards,
Lilian Wong
Thanks, Lilian 
now I see, the problem was that I was trying to find this functionality within the community edition.
Cheers
Pesho
Hi Pesho,
That’s great that you figure out the problem! If there is any inquiry again please do not hesitate to ask.
Best regards,
Lilian Wong
