Comments on: Working with Omondo's EclipseUML Free Edition

By: Matthias

Matthias — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:18:21 +0000

I’m using the current (2007) Free EclipseUML version for Eclipse 3.2 (i.e. not the Europa edition) with mixed results (experimenting with class diagrams only). Reverse engineering from Java source doesn’t seem to render associations, neither for single member variables (one-to-one) nor arrays or containers (one-tro-many). Informaton relating to this on the Omondo site and forums is confusing and contradictory as to whether this feature is enabled in the free version or not. (The author on this page seems to have successfully rendered associatins, but then he was using a 2004 version.)

Forward engineering of associations works, but member variables are inserted at the bottom of existing code, below existing methods. This is unorthodox and bad style in my books, which makes this feature rather useless.

When enabling Dependencies, reverse engineering ends up producing total spaghetti with multiple dependency arrows between classes, apparently one per function call, local and parameter variable etc. There seems to be no way of taming this behaviour or filtering, not even selecting all or multiple dependencies at once. All I can do is selecting one dependency at a time and hiding it, unacceptable for a real scenario. Disabling dependency wiring in the options doesn’t appear to do anything to existing diagrams, so I wonder why this option is there.

What am I doing wrong? As long as these features are not there, and/or not easy to figure out, this packge is too rough to use for me and my students. Any attempt to prove me wrong is appreciated.

By: Gisela

Gisela — Thu, 17 May 2007 01:41:11 +0000

Hi, I have to use aspects over the EclipseUML plugin… could you help me to know where to start? Which method is invoked when you create a diagram??
Thanks

By: Sivatheja

Sivatheja — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:10:06 +0000

Right click on ‘package explorer’ to get ‘reverse engineer’ option.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:14:53 +0000

The importing of XMI is only supported in the Studio version, which sucks as EclipseUML doesn’t support OCL and other tastie titbits you can find in argiouml.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:37:15 +0000

I am having the same problem as Stephen above. when i right click on my project in Eclipse, there is no “reverse engineering” option. any help is appreciated!

By: Mikael

Mikael — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:26:20 +0000

This tutorial was really helpful! Thanx!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 09:53:14 +0000

Hello,

I think you have to start eclipse with the -clean option.

Brgds

By: Stephen Barrett

Stephen Barrett — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 05:35:59 +0000

Looks like a worthwhile tool, if I can get Eclipse to recognize it. When I enter:
java -jar eclipseUML_E301_freeEdition_2.0.0.beta.20041026.jar
All the listed files end up in the proper directories (features and plugins), but Eclipse fails to see them. What am I missing?

Thanks a head.

By: Deepak

Deepak — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 20:29:26 +0000

Download eclipseUML_E301 _freeEdition_2.0.0.beta. 20041026.jar (free edition for Eclipse 3.0, although I tried it for Elcipse 3.1).

eclipseUML_E301_freeEdition_2.0.0.beta.20041026.jar is not availbale.

By: Zeger Hendrikse

Zeger Hendrikse — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:51:47 +0000

Thanks for your positive feedback!

I coulndn’t agree with you more: it took me quite some time to get acquainted with Omondo’s UML package, mainly due to their tutorial being insufficiently clear. It is a pity that they didn’t improve on it, since it somewhat “hides” the nice product they offer!