1. Kendall Demaree AREVA T&D Inc. CIMug – Tools Breakout June 12, 2008
EA migration notes
Kendall Demaree
AREVA T&D Inc.
CIMug – Tools Breakout
June 12, 2008

2. EA cautions Migration of Rose has some issues
XLS of issues and import path problems
Attribute type references
Diagram notes
Package notes
const, static on attributes
<<Datatype>>
Line routing on diagrams
Correctable by software tools
New Rose UNISYS XMI export plug-in is useful
CIMinEA.exe will be open sourced and posted

3. Enterprise Architect Migration
Maintaining and combined model for v13
Migrations Rose to EA using new CIMinEA.exe
CIMinEA will be released as open source
.NET automation based interface into EA
Patches missing Rose XMI data
New Rose UNISYS plug-in for XMI export
Challenges merging models from Rose
Loss of GUIDs – must patch by name matching
Manual diagram cleanup (not done yet)
Documentation for via .NET automation
Recommend latest EA 7.1 corporate version

4. Rose to EA Conversion Goals
Achieve no loss of data
Achieve imperfect but good translation on UML class diagrams
Repeatable process, so could work on importing packages from Rose over time
Full IEC format compatibility
Encourage, but not require, working with full CIM models (“un CIM modèle” – Eric Lambert - EDF)

5. CIMinEA.exe program CIMinEA.exe - relative simple C#
Uses MS .NET XML parser xmltextreader
Uses EA documented .NET automation interface
Uses MS Word .NET automation interface to produce formatted documents. Exact SoDA 301 emulation.

6. Rose to EA via XMI

7. Model Documenation (like 301)

8. Validation of Full or Partial Model

9. EA Package Exchange Primer
EA files stored as whole in EAP files
Exchange packages via robust XMI export and import
Unlike Rose, associations are not part of a specific package as stored in EAP files.
XMI package exports contain all links to external elements referenced by EA created GUID’s
XMI package import will import any link to valid GUID.
Rose export/import process does not preserve GUID’s (see merge process for workaround)

10. Model Package Merge – Rose to EA

11. CIMinEA - Command Line -eap eap_file_name -xmi xmi_file_name
-uml2 ibm_uml2_file
-emx ibm_emx_file
-validate
-update
-transfer
-diagram all|diagram_name
-doc
-doc_into packages[,…]
-rootpackage root_package
-dot dot_file
-dumpguids guid_file
-options options_file
-h[elp] prints this help