Introduction A recent addition to the functionality of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (EA) is Custom Documents. This feature is provided in addition to the existing feature of documentation generation. This article provides details of this new feature, compares it to documentation generation and poses the question: “Are custom documents a replacement for Document Generation?” What …
Model-Based Add-ins are a relatively new feature in Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect (EA). This article provides: An overview of Model-Based Add-ins and how they differ from scripts. The characteristics of Model-Based Add-ins. A suggested workflow for the development of a Model-Based Add-in. A simple example. A Model-Based Add-in is a stereotyped UML Class element with …
Using the correct tooling, complex business rules can be easily modelled and maintained. A concise and manageable method of modelling complex business rules is a Decision Table. Enterprise Architect supports the modelling of Decision Tables in form of DMN (Decision Table Model Notation). Business Rules can be modelled and tested using multiple data sets. These …
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Presented by Phil Chudley at the EA Global Summit At the start of June 2020 the first online EA Global Summit was held with fantastic free content from experts across the globe. The event had a host of attendees and presenters hailing from Europe, UK, Australia, India and North America. Phil Chudley, Principal Consultant at …
Why Implement Use Cases? There are several ways to answer this question, but there are 4 main considerations: Getting Started with Use Cases If you aren’t using Use Cases on your projects, now that you know just how useful they can be, why not give them a try? Adopting Use Cases as your method of …
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The Systems Modelling Language (SysML) is a general purpose modelling language for engineering systems. SysML supports the analysis, design and verification of complex systems including hardware, software, information, personnel, procedures, and facilities in a graphical notation. SysML provides graphical representations based on a semantic foundation for modelling system behaviour, requirements, structure, and parametrical elements which …
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In 1997 the OMG (Object Management Group) developed the Unified Modelling Language (UML) as a common architectural framework for modelling object oriented systems and applications. UML is derived primarily from the strengths of three notations; Bouch OOD (Object Oriented Design), Rumbaugh OMT (Object Modelling Technique) and Jacobson OOSE (Object Oriented Software Engineering). The OMG described …
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Background Once a model has been developed in Enterprise Architect, it can be shared to users who do not have Enterprise Architect by publishing the model to HTML where the model can be viewed in a browser. However, out of the box, this common method of publication to HTML suffers from the following problems: In …
Background One of my favourite features of Enterprise Architect (EA) is the ability to define your own meta-models using MDG technology, and over the many years I have used EA, I have developed many such MDGs and have shared my experiences in their development at numerous EA User Group meetings. However there has always been …
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