Using Enterprise Architect with OpenEdge

tamhas — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:12:10 +0000

The Enterprise Architect product from Sparx Systems is emerging as the preferred UML modeling tool at many OpenEdge sites. In order to make it easy for people to get started using this powerful tool, information will be collected here to assist people in this process.

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ABL2UML - Modeling Existing ABL Systems with UML

tamhas — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:47:04 +0000

Overview
Given the need to enhance or transform a large existing ABL application, one is often hampered in the task by limited or out of date documentation. This project seeks to create a tool set that will read existing ABL code and the corresponding database to build a UML model of the application. This model can then be used for analysis and potentially can serve as the basis for future changes.

This project will consist of three stages:
1. Defining a UML "Profile" for ABL so that there are appropriate UML stereotypes to express the structural realities and relationships of ABL code and the corresponding dictionary.
2. Creating a tool for loading Progress dictionary information into a UML modeling tool using these stereotypes.
3. Creating a tool which will read and analyze ABL code and then load this information into a UML modeling tool using the stereotypes of the Profile.

ABL2DB & ABL2UML Group

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Using Enterprise Architect with OpenEdge

ABL2UML - Modeling Existing ABL Systems with UML