UML Modeling Tool Suggestions?????

My group is in need of an inexpensive but good "UML Modeling Tool". We are currently looking at a tool ( Enterprise Architect ) that produces use case diagrams, object model diagrams and will produce stubs from the diagrams and will also reverse engineer. It cost about $150 per seat but has some serious short comings. We dont want anything major like "Rational Rose". Any tools anyone has experience with and can recommend that inlcude UML, use case diagrams and object model diagrams would be great.

Together cost a bit more then $150 but it worth it. Basically any piece of your code became the piece of class diagram or package diagram. The Feature Driven Development (not Use Case based approach you are looking for in a chip tool) is recommended for Together. Sometimes FDD is much more effective and it is very close to approach recommended by XP guys.

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Why does R/3 have no ABAP UML modelling tools integrated?

I find it strange that SAP tout the benefits of OO programming and ABAP classes, then completely fail to provide a UML round trip modelling tool integrated into the ABAP workbench.
Doesn't this display a lack of foresight on SAPs behalf? I mean, if you are serious about the use of OO software, shouldn't you be serious about providing the framework such as UML modelling tools to facilitate optimal development?
Currently if I design a solution with ABAP objects, I am using Altova UModel to document the solution, but the lack of integration with the ABAP environment means that I am always struggling to keep the code and model in sync.
does anybody have similar views on this? If views are in accordance, couldn't the SDN community try to lobby SAP to provide such a tool?

Hello Anthony
I document my ABAP-OO developments with Altova UModel, too. A colleague recently showed me that the NetWeaver Developer Studio has UML functionality but for Java developments only (where round-trip engineering is already commonplace).
I assume that the problem with ABAP round-trip engineering is the ABAP dictionary. With Java you have the simple data types and the the class hierarchies of Java. In ABAP we also need the dictionary types.
I would appreciate to have such UML tools for ABAP available, yet I do not expect them to become available in the near future.
Regards
Uwe

OWB and UML modelling tools

Hi Experts,
I was wondering if it's possible to use OWB together with an UML tool like Enterprise Architect (EA). The basic idea would be to define processes on a high level in EA and export those.
OWB should then be able to import the high level processes and transform these into projects, modules, maybe even mappings (would be enough to have just the mapping names without any content).
Does any one now if this is possible?
Thanks for your help
Regards
Andy

Hi,
If you can get some information from a modelling tool, you can use this information for OMB*Plus.
You can create a script in OMB*Plus and TCL.
We use OMB*Plus to generate mappings with a few parameters.
Regards,
Emile

Recommend Java UML modelling tool?

Hi, based on your experience with UML tools (capable of modelling Java), what are ones that have a similar interface on both Windows and Linux?
I'd like to start using a UML tool as I learn Java, and I use both Windows and Linux, so I'm hoping to find one that you recommend and that has a similar interface on both systems, so that it's easy to switch back and forth between systems.
Any recommendations based on your past experience?
Thank you.

Thanks for the response, I'll check that out.
On this topic of similar interface for Windows and
Linux, could I also ask a question about Eclipse?
I'm a beginner programmer, and I'd like to learn
Eclipse sometime. If I learn it using Windows then
one day switch to Linux, will I miss a beat at all in
terms of the interface of Eclipse -- will all my
efforts to learn on Windows carry over to Linux?
(Never used it before, so if it sounds like a dumb
question, that's probably cuz it is.)
Thanks!Eclipse runs the same on both platforms. So does netbeans, jGrasp, etc, etc, etc.
But from what I've heard, you should use a text editor or minimalistic IDE to learn. Which seems like the route you're going anyway.
~Cheers

What's the best UML modeling tool?

Anyone have thoughts?

Starr UML is free and it supports AS 3 if you install an additional plugin.
Here's a great brief intro on it: http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutorials/starumltoas3/

UML modeling in NWDS

Hello,
Do You know somebody if there is any UML plugin (UML eclipse plugin ?), tool, ... whatever to NWDS ?
What is recommended UML modeling tool for SAP NW Java (ev. ABAP) development ?
thanks in advance
Marcel

There are UML tools for eclipse available as plugins. doing a google search for UML and eclipse dumps you many od those.

Unable to compile T1 Architecture and Simulation modelling tool

Hello,
I am trying to compile the T1 Simulation and Architecture modelling tool. The whole package is downloaded from opensparc.net
As a requirement, i am using Solaris 10 on SPARC based machine with Solaris Studio 12.3 as the compiler.
When i am running the "build_sas.sh full" script, it gives me an error:
--- Building n1 in strand ---
/opt/solarisstudio12.3//bin/CC -G -KPIC -fast -xO5 -DNDEBUG -DRS_INLINE=inline -DRS_MPSAS_COMPATIBLE    -xarch=v9a -DHOST64BIT=1    -DN1_BOOTS10 -DMEMORY_SPARSE -I../../include/strand -I../../include/fw -I../../include/mmu -I../../include/asi -I../../include/core -I../../include/cpu -I../../include/system -I../../include/trap -I../../include/register -I/scratch//sam-t1/devtools/64/shade/inc -c -o obj64opt_n1/V9/V9_AsiReg.o V9/V9_AsiReg.cc
CC: Warning: -xarch=v9a is deprecated, use -m64 -xarch=sparcvis instead
"../../include/fw/Callee.h", line 98: Error: 'Riesling::operator new(unsigned long, Riesling::CalleeAllocator&)' may not be declared within a namespace.
1 Error(s) detected.
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `obj64opt_n1/V9/V9_AsiReg.o'
Current working directory /scratch/sam-t1/src/riesling-cm/riesling/src/strand
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `strand'
the Callee.h file has the following declaration for line#97:
inline void* operator new( size_t size, CalleeAllocator& a )/*{{{*/
// This new() function is called for code written as
// new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee0<void>(f);
// and allocates size bytes from the CalleeAllocator
return a.alloc(size);
I did some Google search, and found that, "An allocation function shall be a class member function or a global function; a program is ill-formed if an allocation function is declared in a namespace scope other than global scope or declared static in global scope. [..]" (c++ - operator new inside namespace - Stack Overflow).
Would appreciate any help or suggestion.

I tried you last suggestion, by simply moving the "new" function before the namespace, but it gave me the following Error: The prior declaration for operator new(unsigned long) has no exception specification.
So, I naively just defined the new as below, just to see what happens:
41 inline void* operator new( size_t size, CalleeAllocator& a) throw()
    42 {return a.alloc(size);
    43 }
which, after compilation gives the following error:
Error: std::bad_alloc is not in the prior exception specification
The download link to the whole package is here: OpenSPARC T1
At the end of the page, there is the download link to the OpenSPARC T1 Processor for Architecture and Performance Modeling Tools.
below is the original Callee.h file: Line 97 is where the operator new is defined which appears to be outside of namespace Riesling.
* ========== Copyright Header Begin ==========================================
* OpenSPARC T1 Processor File: Callee.h
* Copyright (c) 2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES.
* The above named program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
* License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
* The above named program is distributed in the hope that it will be
* useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* General Public License for more details.
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
* License along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
* ========== Copyright Header End ============================================
#ifndef __Callee_h__
#define __Callee_h__
** Copyright (C) 2002, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
** Sun considers its source code as an unpublished, proprietary
** trade secret and it is available only under strict license provisions.
** This copyright notice is placed here only to protect Sun in the event
** the source is deemed a published work. Disassembly, decompilation,
** or other means of reducing the object code to human readable form
** is prohibited by the license agreement under which this code is
** provided to the user or company in possession of this copy."
#include "DataTypes.h"
namespace Riesling {
class CalleeAllocator/*{{{*/
// CalleeAllocator is a helper class for implementing the callee_method() and
// callee_function() functions that dynamically allocate a Callee object. This
// class takes the burden of the coder for having to manage those dynamically
// allocated objects and also avoids many calls to malloc().
public:
    CalleeAllocator() : page(0), free((void**)1), full(0) {}
    ~CalleeAllocator()
      while (page)
    Page* help = page;
    page = page->next;
    delete help;
    void* alloc( uint_t size )
      void* cell;
      size = (size + sizeof(void*) - 1) / sizeof(void*);
      if ((free + size) > full)
    page = new Page(page);
    free = page->page;
    full = page->page + Page::SIZE;
      cell = free;
      free = free + size;
      return cell;
    static CalleeAllocator allocator;
private:
    class Page
      public:
    enum { SIZE = 4096 };
    Page( Page* pntr ) : next(pntr) {}
    Page* next;
    void* page[SIZE];
    Page* page;
    void** free;
    void** full;
inline void* operator new( size_t size, CalleeAllocator& a )/*{{{*/
// This new() function is called for code written as
// new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee0<void>(f);
// and allocates size bytes from the CalleeAllocator
return a.alloc(size);
#ifndef COMPILER_ABI_CHANGED
inline void* gnu_vtbl_lookup( void* object, void* method )/*{{{*/
// The GNU compiler makes a virtual method into an integer index into the
// virtual table. It indicates this through bit 0 of the method being 1. If that
// bit is set then we get the virtual table and index for the method. If the bit 0
// is 0 then the method is a pointer to a function already.
#ifdef __GNU__
if (int(method) & 1)
    return (*(void***)object)[int(method) / sizeof(void*)];
else
#endif
    return method;
template<class Object, class Return> union MethodToFunction0/*{{{*/
// The templated union MethodToFunction0 converts a method pointer
// to a function pointer. The SparcWorks compiler already transforms
// method pointers to function pointers. For the GNU C++ compiler we
// need to check for virtual functions and do a virtual table lookup.
MethodToFunction0<Object,Return>( Object* object, Return (Object::*_method)() )
    method(_method)
    (void*&)function = gnu_vtbl_lookup(object,(void*)function);
Return (Object::*method)();        // The method to convert to a function
Return (*function)(void*);        // The converted function, the first argument is the this pointer
template<class Return> class Callee0/*{{{*/
// The Callee class holds the function pointer or method pointer that
// represents the callee. The caller is a pointer to the Callee class.
public:
    typedef Return (*Function)();
    typedef Return (*Method)(void*);
    Callee0<Return>( Function f )
      object(0),
      function(f)
    template<class Object> Callee0<Return>( Object* o, MethodToFunction0<Object,Return> m )
      object(o),
      method(m.function)
    Return call()
      return object ? (*method)(object) : (*function)();
protected:
    void*      object;        // If object is 0 (NULL) then we have a function to call
    union             // Else a method need to be called.
      Method   method;
      Function function;
template<class Return> Callee0<Return>* callee_function( Return (*f)() )/*{{{*/
// callee_function() creates a Callee object of the function. The compiler
// helps in figuring out the type signature ... hurra for templates:
// Callee<void>* c = calee_function(f);
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee0<Return>(f);
template<class Object, class Return> Callee0<Return>* callee_method( Object* o, Return (Object::*m)() )/*{{{*/
// callee_method() creates a Callee object of the method. The compiler
// helps in figuring out the type signature. The function requires an
// object and the template enforces that the object and method are of the
// same type. Don't cast object pointers. The method must exists, e.g.
// inherited methods need to be replicated (fat interface). Virtual methods
// are eradicated.
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee0<Return>(o,MethodToFunction0<Object,Return>(o,m));
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1> union MethodToFunction1/*{{{*/
MethodToFunction1<Object,Return,Arg1>( Object* object, Return (Object::*_method)(Arg1) )
    method(_method)
    (void*&)function = gnu_vtbl_lookup(object,(void*)function);
Return (Object::*method)(Arg1);
Return (*function)(void*,Arg1);
template<class Return, class Arg1> class Callee1/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (*Function)(Arg1);
    typedef Return (*Method)(void*,Arg1);
    Callee1<Return,Arg1>( Function f ) : object(0), function(f) {}
    template<class Object> Callee1<Return,Arg1>( Object* o, MethodToFunction1<Object,Return,Arg1> m )
      object(o),
      method(m.function)
    Return call( Arg1 a1 )
      return object ? (*method)(object,a1) : (*function)(a1);
protected:
    void*    object;
    union
      Method   method;
      Function function;
template<class Return, class Arg1> Callee1<Return,Arg1>* callee_function( Return (*f)(Arg1) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee1<Return,Arg1>(f);
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1> Callee1<Return,Arg1>* callee_method( Object* o, Return (Object::*m)(Arg1) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee1<Return,Arg1>(o,MethodToFunction1<Object,Return,Arg1>(o,m));
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> union MethodToFunction2/*{{{*/
MethodToFunction2<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2>( Object* object, Return (Object::*_method)(Arg1,Arg2) )
    method(_method)
    (void*&)function = gnu_vtbl_lookup(object,(void*)function);
Return (Object::*method)(Arg1,Arg2);
Return (*function)(void*,Arg1,Arg2);
template<class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> class Callee2/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (*Function)(Arg1,Arg2);
    typedef Return (*Method)(void*,Arg1,Arg2);
    Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>( Function f ) : object(0), function(f) {}
    template<class Object> Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>( Object* o, MethodToFunction2<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2> m )
      object(o),
      method(m.function)
    Return call( Arg1 a1, Arg2 a2 )
      return object ? (*method)(object,a1,a2) : (*function)(a1,a2);
protected:
    void*    object;
    union
      Method   method;
      Function function;
template<class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>* callee_function( Return (*f)(Arg1,Arg2) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>(f);
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>* callee_method( Object* o, Return (Object::*m)(Arg1,Arg2) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>(o,MethodToFunction2<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2>(o,m));
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2, class Arg3> union MethodToFunction3/*{{{*/
MethodToFunction3<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>( Object* object, Return (Object::*_method)(Arg1,Arg2,Arg3) )
    method(_method)
    (void*&)function = gnu_vtbl_lookup(object,(void*)function);
Return (Object::*method)(Arg1,Arg2,Arg3);
Return (*function)(void*,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3);
template<class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2, class Arg3> class Callee3/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (*Function)(Arg1,Arg2,Arg3);
    typedef Return (*Method)(void*,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3);
    Callee3<Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>( Function f ) : object(0), function(f) {}
    template<class Object> Callee3<Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>( Object* o, MethodToFunction3<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3> m )
      object(o),
      method(m.function)
    Return call( Arg1 a1, Arg2 a2, Arg3 a3 )
      return object ? (*method)(object,a1,a2,a3) : (*function)(a1,a2,a3);
protected:
    void*    object;
    union
      Method   method;
      Function function;
template<class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2, class Arg3> Callee3<Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>* callee_function( Return (*f)(Arg1,Arg2,Arg3) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee3<Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>(f);
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2, class Arg3> Callee3<Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>* callee_method( Object* o, Return (Object::*m)(Arg1,Arg2,Arg3) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) Callee3<Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>(o,MethodToFunction3<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>(o,m));
#else
template<class Return> class Callee0/*{{{*/
public:
    Callee0<Return>() {}
    virtual ~Callee0() {}
    virtual Return call      () = 0;
template<class Return> class CalleeFunction0 : public Callee0<Return>/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (*Function)();
    CalleeFunction0<Return>( Function f ) : Callee0<Return>(), function(f) {}
    Return call      () { return (*function)(); }
protected:
    Function function;
template<class Object, class Return> class CalleeMethod0 : public Callee0<Return>/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (Object::*Method)();
    CalleeMethod0<Object,Return>( Object* o, Method m ) : Callee0<Return>(), object(o), method(m) {}
    Return call      () { return (object->*method)(); }
protected:
    Object* object;
    Method method;
template<class Return> CalleeFunction0<Return>* callee_function( Return (*f)() )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) CalleeFunction0<Return>(f);
template<class Object, class Return> CalleeMethod0<Object,Return>* callee_method( Object* o, Return (Object::*m)() )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) CalleeMethod0<Object,Return>(o,m);
template<class Return, class Arg1> class Callee1/*{{{*/
public:
    Callee1<Return,Arg1>() {}
    virtual ~Callee1() {}
    virtual Return call      ( Arg1 a1 ) = 0;
template<class Return, class Arg1> class CalleeFunction1 : public Callee1<Return,Arg1>/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (*Function)( Arg1 );
    CalleeFunction1<Return,Arg1>( Function f ) : Callee1<Return,Arg1>(), function(f) {}
    Return call      ( Arg1 a1 ) { return (*function)(a1); }
protected:
    Function function;
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1> class CalleeMethod1 : public Callee1<Return,Arg1>/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (Object::*Method)( Arg1 );
    CalleeMethod1<Object,Return,Arg1>( Object* o, Method m ) : Callee1<Return,Arg1>(), object(o), method(m) {}
    Return call      ( Arg1 a1 ) { return (object->*method)(a1); }
protected:
    Object* object;
    Method method;
template<class Return, class Arg1> CalleeFunction1<Return,Arg1>* callee_function( Return (*f)(Arg1) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) CalleeFunction1<Return,Arg1>(f);
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1> CalleeMethod1<Object,Return,Arg1>* callee_method( Object* o, Return (Object::*m)(Arg1) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) CalleeMethod1<Object,Return,Arg1>(o,m);
template<class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> class Callee2/*{{{*/
public:
    Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>() {}
    virtual ~Callee2() {}
    virtual Return call      ( Arg1 a1, Arg2 a2 ) = 0;
template<class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> class CalleeFunction2 : public Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (*Function)( Arg1, Arg2 );
    CalleeFunction2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>( Function f ) : Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>(), function(f) {}
    Return call      ( Arg1 a1, Arg2 a2 ) { return (*function)(a1,a2); }
protected:
    Function function;
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> class CalleeMethod2 : public Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>/*{{{*/
public:
    typedef Return (Object::*Method)( Arg1, Arg2 );
    CalleeMethod2<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2>( Object* o, Method m ) : Callee2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>(), object(o), method(m) {}
    Return call      ( Arg1 a1, Arg2 a2 ) { return (object->*method)(a1,a2); }
protected:
    Object* object;
    Method method;
template<class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> CalleeFunction2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>* callee_function( Return (*f)(Arg1,Arg2) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) CalleeFunction2<Return,Arg1,Arg2>(f);
template<class Object, class Return, class Arg1, class Arg2> CalleeMethod2<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2>* callee_method( Object* o, Return (Object::*m)(Arg1,Arg2) )/*{{{*/
return new(CalleeAllocator::allocator) CalleeMethod2<Object,Return,Arg1,Arg2>(o,m);
#endif
#endif

Practical use of UML diagramming tool....

Hi ,
the use of UML diagramming tool is to present the system to end user (use cases) ... like the Entity Relationship Diagram in the Oracle Designer....
However , i 'd like to ask if the product of this tool can be used as a base to produce something else afterwards in the whole system...
I mean that in Oacle Designer , when the analyst designs the ER Diagram and saves it to the repository... this can be used to automatically generate the tables... in the repository also and then to the database...!!!!!
Is there analogous using UML diagramming tool....?????
Many thanks,
Simon

The UML class diagram can generate Java classes and ADF Business Components.
The Database modeler in JDeveloper can generate the database objects.
Also when you are designing the page flow diagram you are actually building the JSF or Struts flows.
The hands-on-lab that you can find on the right side of this page:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/collateral/4gl/formsdesignerj2ee.html
Shows off some of the model to code capabilities of JDeveloper:

Mapping UML Model to Database Schema

Hi All,
Is it possible to map UML business object model on database schema using Mapping Workbenck? I've done the mapping with imported java classes, but wodering if same could be done with the UML models. I couldn't find any documentation about it either. This feature may be very useful in cases where you want to incorporate TopLink in the design stages of a project.
Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Sharad,
I agree that incorporating design time practices into this tool might be useful, but is not supported as you described.
From the perspective of application development, I find it useful to first develop the object model in an IDE such as JDeveloper which supports UML (Which will automatically allow you to deploy the .class files of the project). I point my MW project to the output location of my .class files which seems to work great as I can make changes to the object model in the IDE and easily refresh the contents in the MW.
I hope this helps.
Darren

UML Modeling: Round Trip Engineering

Hi!
Yesterday I worked through and tested the UML Modeling: Developing Applications tutorial. Everything worked awsome and I managed to complete step in the tutorial.
Today, when I started the studio and wanted to play a little more with Round Trip Engineering I found something strange.
If I add an operation to the java-source using the source editor it do not show up in the UML class diagram but if I add an operation to the UML class diagram it shows up in the java-source.
Is it me that is doing anything wrong?
Is this a known issue/bug?
Win XP Professional
Java Studio Enterprise 8 with latest update today.
Sincerely,
// Paul

Paul,
Glad to hear you like the UML tool. Not sure which release/version you are working with so I'll try to cover all the bases hear.
The UML module was released with the Enterprise Pack (early access version I believe), the live roundtrip was still enabled. Then we pulled UML module out of the Enterprise Pack because we needed to do some overhauling of the roundtrip feature and we didn't want to prevent Enterprise Pack from going beta, so now UML is available via the beta update center. This version of UML has the live roundtrip disabled so that code is not generated with every model manipulation and the model is not updated with every source edit. It sounds like this is the version you are working with.
There is a strange scenario where the live roundtrip is unintentionally enabled (live roundtrip should never be enabled... ever - this is not your fault). A bug was filed and I fixed it, but the fix was integrated into a different branch than the one available via the update center. This is because we are about to release Java Studio Enterprise 8.1 and so we did all the bug fixing on that branch and all those fixes will be merged with the UML that is on the update center, probably in the next week or two, but a date has not been decided, yet.
In summary, rest assured that the issue (and many many others) have been addressed, and those fixes will be merged into the version available on the update center very soon.
Please keep the feedback coming on reverse engineering and code generation as we are rebuilding these features from scratch for NetBeans 6.
thanks
craig

Do SAP have a process modeling tool included on one of their solutions ?

Hello,
I'm new in this blog. I would like to post the question
Do SAP have a process modeling tool included on one of their solutions ?
I appreciate if somebody answers.
JCT

Hi Theo,
I was leaving under the same perception, but I found out that ARIS supports BPMN. Not the full 1.0 standard but you still have start, end and intermediate events (include message, timer, error, cancel, rule, link, etc'), Tasks (without visual support for sub-process, loop and multiple), flows (normal, conditional and default), pool, lane and artifacts. in a matter of fact, I'm working on an blog post about modeling business process with ARIS using BPMN those days.
In my <b>OWN</b> opinion I think that EPC is out of date and we shouldn't use it. this modeling notation is mostly known in the SAP world and comparing to BPMN is also poor in notations. BPMN is more reach and let you express processes in more clearer way (Until last version you can't even express exception in a process). although BPMN is young standard it has better "father" and it's always better to work with standards rather then niche modeling notations.
Before enter the SAP world I used to use mainly BPMN and BPEL (UML, IDEF0 and value chain maps were also used from time to time), But i didn't work with EPC at all. I think that we can model processes using BPMN and I'm happy that ARIS let us do it (btw, who said that we have to use ARIS. but that's another story).
well .... just my thoughts

A short survey: Business Process Modeling Tools

Hi everybody,
my name is Leonie Fütterer and I am a student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. I do research on freeware business process modeling tools.
Please take two minutes and help me by completing the following survey. The results will be released in february 2011 in terms of an academic paper.
www.bpm-toos.net
Thank you!
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me (see link above)!
Leonie Fütterer

I guess the link is rather http://www.bpm-tools.net/ ?
I will circulate it to my friends.... here where I work they use Excel =:o( and ARGOS-UML much to my dismay

UML modeller is so buggy that it's almost useless

Looks like JSE 8 is released without quality control, at least the UML modeller part of it. I have been now trying to draw one complex sequence diagram 4 hours. Elements jump around randomly, lines go to wherever they want, sometimes you cannot assign label to messages, sometimes you do.
There is no undo. After you have 12 elements and you do something which makes layout manager suddenly go haywire giving elements random positions, you cannot undo. Draw those 12 elements again. Now, imagine the situation with 50 elements.
The last straw that broke camel back was that after I finally got my diagram "almost readable state" saved it and reopened it, the formatting was totally broken. All work lost. Here is a screenshot:
http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~moo/sun_just_cant_do_it.JPG
Hell, I would have been finished in half of a time with MS PowerPoint and have some WORKING documents in my hands.
Sun follows its tradition and fails to ship decent desktop software. If you plan to do UML modelling with JSE8 and your UML model contains more than four boxes, forget it. They say they are giving 1300$ worth of software for free. I wouldn't use this tool for any serious work even if they paid me 5000$, since I'd rather work without headaches and it's no good to tell your client "sorry, couldn't do it since my software development environment just ate the plans".

First of all, thanks for your feedback.
(It would have been much better if it was a bit softer in tone :) )
This issue has been reported earlier on the forum, and we addressed it. We fixed many issues with sequence diagrams. They will be available to you in our next TPR (TPR3) releasing very soon.
In a situation where we don't have a scheduled TPR in the near future, we can provide you with a patch. And, It is always a good idea to browse the forums to see if the issue has been reported earlier and any workarounds posted in response.
We always welcome constructive feedback (with a positive attitude :) ) and try our best to address the issues and make our tool better.
Thanks
Jyothi.

UML model synchronization

I have a problem with the UML support that I need help with. I have an existing Netbeans project and created a UML project reversed from existing Java sources (or something like that).
I have a source tree like this:
com.test.packagea
                  ObjectA.java
com.test.packageb
                  ObjectB.java
                  ObjectC.javaObjectB is dependent on ObjectC through a method call.
The UML model shows this structure and life is good. I update my source tree from version control (Star Team) and another developer has moved ObjectC into packagea. My tree now has two ObjectC items, one in each package like this:
com.test.packagea
                  ObjectA.java
                  ObjectC.java
com.test.packageb
                  ObjectB.java
                  ObjectC.javaWhat I really would like is a way to reconcile this situation. Maybe a notification that source code for ObjectC in packagebis no longer available and then scan any newly created models (ObjectC in packagea) to see if that is the correct model. There may be a way to do this, but I have not found it.
Thank you,
David

I have reset the project to look like this:
com.test.packagea
                  ObjectA.java
com.test.packageb
                  ObjectB.java
                  ObjectC.javaI now move ObjectC.java to packagea. The java project updates properly with no problem. I then right click on the com package and choose Tools-->Synchronize model from source and end up with the following project:
com.test.packagea
                  ObjectA.java
                  ObjectC.java
com.test.packageb
                  ObjectB.java
                  ObjectB.java
                  ObjectC.java
                  ObjectC.java (This looks to be an instance element?)I would report this but there isn't a bug/rfe report option on the Early Access home page.
Thank you,
David

OpenSPARC T1 Processor for Architecture and Performance Modeling Tools

Hello All,
I am trying to install this modelling tool and running into different errors.
I am following the readme file and then readme_sam.txt file to follow installation procedure.
1) after SAM and SAS installation, when i try to install blaze_64.sh, it throws out different errors simply from "/ni_mod folder not exist" (an script error) to integer size mismatch :-(
- I am installing this on Solaris 10 with SPARC processor (Single core).
2) Then I decided to stop blaze_64.sh installation and wanted to play with SAM console, but after I wanted to execute "mod load rstrace ./rstracer.so", it comes with the following error: "dlopen: ld.so.1: blaze64: fatal: ./rst.so: open failed: No such file or directory"
- I tried looking online and found an Archived thread (T1 Sam Simulator Trace Tool Broken?) which suggests to re-install and install blaze_64.sh as well. (which i tried and still same issue).
3) Is there a manual/user guide somewhere that I may be missing to install/play with this tool or any support community for this tool?
Thanks

According the XST User Guide, this option (-bufr)
is available only for Virtex-4 devices.
Comment or delete the line in Virtex-5 file
design/sys/xst/XC5VLX110.xst

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