Thanks to recent developments Karsten Thoms (Itemis, financed by the ESRF) we are now switching the EDNA UML modeler tool from Enterprise Architect to Topcased.
Enterprise Architect (EA) has played an important role in the EDNA project from its start till now. EA is a very powerful tool for UML modelling and has served it purpose well. However, the fact that EA is a commercial tool, only runs (well) on Windows and does not support the XMI standard very well has made us to look elsewhere for an EDNA UML modeller.
Since the majority of the EDNA developers use the Eclipse IDE for their developments it was felt that the ideal situation would be to have an Eclipse-based UML modeller for the EDNA developments. Peter Keller (Global Phasing), who has investigated many different solutions, recommended us to try the Topcased UML Editor. This Eclipse-based modeller is open-source and can easily be incorporated into an Eclipse installation.
Unlike EA, the Topcased UML modeller does not create XSD (XML Schema Definition) files from an UML model. These XSD files are necessary for automatically produce the data-binding objects used by the EDNA plugins. On the request of the ESRF Karsten Thoms has produced an Eclipse plugin "UML2XSD" with which it is straight forward to transform an UML model into an XSD file.
Both the kernel and the MXv1 data models have been fully transformed into Topcased UML diagrams and the EA data models are deprecated. The idea is to then slowly migrate all existing EA UML models to Topcased UML models. This migration will soon be simplified thanks to further developments by Karsten Thoms.
For more information on how practically the Topcased UML modeller is used in EDNA see: Data Modeling with the Topcased UML Editor
Monday, December 6, 2010
Minutes from the EDNA full meeting, EDNA training slides and the Kernel Code Camp summary are now available online
The minutes from the last EDNA full meeting held at the ESRF on September 23rd can be found here: EDNA Full Minutes (PDF)
On November 15th-16th an EDNA training was organised at the ESRF. The slides from this training are available: EDNA Introduction (PDF) and Edna Tutorial (PDF).
The summary from the last code camp which was dedicated to kernel developers is also available online: EDNA Kernel Code Camp November 2010 (PDF).
On November 15th-16th an EDNA training was organised at the ESRF. The slides from this training are available: EDNA Introduction (PDF) and Edna Tutorial (PDF).
The summary from the last code camp which was dedicated to kernel developers is also available online: EDNA Kernel Code Camp November 2010 (PDF).
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