I saw some posts asked about this already, but no one answer it. Let me summarize my doubts here.
When reverse engineering, can VP build up relationship between class besides Inheritance? The basic one will be “Association”. Like ClassA has a field or property of ClassB:
class ClassA{
public ClassB InstanceB;
}
When do reverse engineering, can VP put a association line between this two classes? It does not seems to have that ability.
When generating code, can VP generate Generic Collection relationship for Aggregation or Composition. Like after specifing “List” as the Aggregation collection class, and “Child” as the item of the collection, VP can automatically generate code like :
class Parent{
public List<Child> Children;
}
And the same question for reverse, if VP read the code like above, can it automatically set relationship “Aggregation” between the 2 classes? Currently, it seems only allow object[], but Java1.5 and .Net 2 allow generic collection (C++ has it for a long time). Is it because I didn’t find the place to make it work?
Some other Case tools, like EA by Sparx Systems, prividing “Automation Interface” for developing Add-ins, which can be used to generate codes in the way customer required. Does or will VP provide these kind of function?
#1.
I tried both Instant Reverse of VP-UML and round-trip engineering in SDE. But both can reverse engineer your example successfully with association line created between ClassA and ClassB. Could you please check if you are using the most updated release of us?
#2.
I am sorry that Java 5.0 is not supported at the moment. Our engineers are working on it and it will be available on or before Feb 2006. I will keep you informed once there is any news on this issue.
Thank you Jick. I think it was my fault didn’t explain it clearer.
I am using .Net. (I am sure 100% Java supporter, but my bosses are not. sigh.). The SDE for .Net is doing fine with the relasionship. Just one small thing:
When specify 0…1 multiplicity, it give me object[] when generate code, which I think it would be properly if use object instead of array. Cause 0…1 meansbe nullable object.
The problem is for VP-UML, when I create the dll from Visual Studio.Net 2003, VP-UML import it with “Instance reverse”, then I drag the classes from “Model Repository” to a Class Diagram, The relasionship is not there.
Next, c#2.0 is going to contains stuff like List. Is your plan for .Net 2.0 and VS2005 also going to be Feb.2006?
Why not reverse from code directly in VP-UML but from DLL or EXE? Is it because MS’s multi-language hype cause too much work for you guys? But reverse from DLL is still a little not that convenient, just not big issue. SDE is doing fine.
I took a look at the plug-in. it doesn’t seesm like what I want. Is it possible to use the plug in to generate new or my-defined language from diagrams. Or reverse it from it.
When specify 0…1 multiplicity, it give me object when generate code, which I think it would be properly if use object instead of array. Cause 0…1 meansbe nullable object.
I will forward your suggestion to our developers. At the moment, you may set the multiplicity be ‘1’. This will generate an object instead of object array.
The problem is for VP-UML, when I create the dll from Visual Studio.Net 2003, VP-UML import it with “Instance reverse”, then I drag the classes from “Model Repository” to a Class Diagram, The relasionship is not there.
May I kindly request for the source file(s) for repeating this problem? You may send me through private message.
Next, c#2.0 is going to contains stuff like List. Is your plan for .Net 2.0 and VS2005 also going to be Feb.2006?
Actually, we are working on a new code generation engine for .Net 2.0. However, we would like to focus on consolidating the support of VS.NET 2005 first. The support of .Net 2.0 will be our primary focus after the release of SDE for Visual Studio .NET 2005.
I took a look at the plug-in. it doesn’t seesm like what I want.
I am unclear about what EA provided . But as I know our plugin API does allows user to access our whole model. I supposed this is sufficient to write a code generator that read the class details via the API… Perhaps I misunderstood your need? Would you mind telling me more about this?
The problem is for VP-UML, when I create the dll from Visual Studio.Net 2003, VP-UML import it with “Instance reverse”, then I drag the classes from “Model Repository” to a Class Diagram, The relasionship is not there.
Is the above currently working? I use generics extensively in my code and am not able to reverse engineer these sorts of constructs into an UML class diagram. I’m not sure whether it’s not possible or that I just didn’t find the right switch.
If you are already using VP Suite 2.2, I suggest you do an upgrade to advance to the latest release of Service Pack 2. You can update through the updater under the bin folder of $vp-suite-install-dir
I am the same user responding in the last message.
Thanks for the quick reply. But what I forgot to tell is that I am working with C# (and SDE). Is the same functionality also available for that language?
. But as I know our plugin API does allows user to access our whole model. I supposed this is sufficient to write a code generator that read the class details via the API… Perhaps I misunderstood your need? Would you mind telling me more about this?