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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474567] Tue, 08 July 2008 15:38 Go to next message
Felix Dorner is currently offline Felix DornerFriend
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Barbara Rosi-Schwartz wrote:
> On 2008-07-08 15:43:27 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:
>
>>
>>>
>>> Barbara Rosi-Schwartz wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>
>>>> I have a UML model that I created with Eclipse's UML2. When I try to
>>>> convert it to an EMF model, everything is loaded correctly (apart
>>>> from a few warnings that are alien to my model) except for the
>>>> associations. The associations are compositions or aggregations. I
>>>> also have a couple of generalisations and those are converted fine.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea?
>>
>> Who owns the Association Ends?
>
> Hi Felix and thanks for the speedy reply.
>
> Since the associations are unidirectional, I believe one should belong
> to the end type and the other to the association itself.

I guess you mean the opposite end type. This sounds ok.

>
> However I created the model with the graphical editor, as opposed to
> filling in properties, and when I look at the corresponding properties,
> properties such as "aggregation" are set to "none", even though I
> explicitly chose a composition. Should I be filling in properties by hand?

I never really worked with UML2Tools, they have their own group too.

> Also, how do I tell who owns the association ends in the model itself?

Just look at the parent of each end. This is the owner.
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474572 is a reply to message #474567] Wed, 09 July 2008 13:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Barbara Rosi-Schwartz is currently offline Barbara Rosi-SchwartzFriend
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On 2008-07-08 16:38:04 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:

> Barbara Rosi-Schwartz wrote:
>> On 2008-07-08 15:43:27 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Barbara Rosi-Schwartz wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a UML model that I created with Eclipse's UML2. When I try to
>>>>> convert it to an EMF model, everything is loaded correctly (apart from
>>>>> a few warnings that are alien to my model) except for the associations.
>>>>> The associations are compositions or aggregations. I also have a couple
>>>>> of generalisations and those are converted fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> Who owns the Association Ends?
>>
>> Hi Felix and thanks for the speedy reply.
>>
>> Since the associations are unidirectional, I believe one should belong
>> to the end type and the other to the association itself.
>
> I guess you mean the opposite end type. This sounds ok.
>
>>
>> However I created the model with the graphical editor, as opposed to
>> filling in properties, and when I look at the corresponding properties,
>> properties such as "aggregation" are set to "none", even though I
>> explicitly chose a composition. Should I be filling in properties by
>> hand?
>
> I never really worked with UML2Tools, they have their own group too.
>
>> Also, how do I tell who owns the association ends in the model itself?
>
> Just look at the parent of each end. This is the owner.

Thanks.

So, where to go from here regarding my original problem?
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474574 is a reply to message #474572] Wed, 09 July 2008 15:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Felix Dorner is currently offline Felix DornerFriend
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>>>>>> I have a UML model that I created with Eclipse's UML2. When I try
>>>>>> to convert it to an EMF model, everything is loaded correctly
>>>>>> (apart from a few warnings that are alien to my model) except for
>>>>>> the associations. The associations are compositions or
>>>>>> aggregations. I also have a couple of generalisations and those
>>>>>> are converted fine.

You could send us an example model, that when converting to ecore, shows
the behaviour you mentioned.
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474575 is a reply to message #474572] Wed, 09 July 2008 20:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dave Carlson is currently offline Dave CarlsonFriend
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Hi Barbara,

What UML editor are you using to create your model? If using Topcased, it
will always create associations with both ends owned by the Association, and
this model style (although valid UML), is not compatible with the Ecore
generation.

Many other UML editors will always represent navigable association end
properties as owned by the source class, or maybe have an option to create
them this way. This is the only representation supported by Ecore
generation.

UML 2 allows a navigable association end (a Property) to be owned either by
the source class of the association, or by the Association itself. When a
navigable end is owned by the Association, the Property's isNavigable
attribute must be 'true'. This latter approach is valid, but not supported
by the UML-to-Ecore, so these navigable properties (owned by the
Association) will never appear in the resulting EMF.

Does this help explain the situation?

Regards,
Dave Carlson

>
> Thanks.
>
> So, where to go from here regarding my original problem?
> B.
>
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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474576 is a reply to message #474575] Thu, 10 July 2008 09:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 2008-07-09 21:46:50 +0100, "Dave Carlson" <dcarlson@xmlmodeling.com> said:

> Hi Barbara,
>
> What UML editor are you using to create your model? If using Topcased, it
> will always create associations with both ends owned by the Association, and
> this model style (although valid UML), is not compatible with the Ecore
> generation.
>
> Many other UML editors will always represent navigable association end
> properties as owned by the source class, or maybe have an option to create
> them this way. This is the only representation supported by Ecore
> generation.
>
> UML 2 allows a navigable association end (a Property) to be owned either by
> the source class of the association, or by the Association itself. When a
> navigable end is owned by the Association, the Property's isNavigable
> attribute must be 'true'. This latter approach is valid, but not supported
> by the UML-to-Ecore, so these navigable properties (owned by the
> Association) will never appear in the resulting EMF.
>
> Does this help explain the situation?
>
> Regards,
> Dave Carlson
>

Dave and Felix, thank you both.

The editor I am using is Eclipse's own UML2 editor, which is
instantiated when I request New --> UML 2.1 Diagrams --> Class Diagram.

I have been looking through the properties of my associations, but I do
not see an isNavigable attribute. Where is it located?

In any case, I have created a very small sample model with two classes
and an association between them of the type that I have in my own
model. When I create an EMF project and import the UML model into it,
the resulting Ecore model is missing the association. I am attaching a
zip file with both en "example" project containing the UML model and an
"example.emf" project containing the resulting Ecore model.

I am sure this way it will be easier for you to spot where I am going wrong.

Thanks again,
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474577 is a reply to message #474576] Thu, 10 July 2008 10:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hi Rosi,

from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of
your Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in
the tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that
represent the two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported
by the UML2Ecore transformation process.

Look at how the Associations are created in the Article below.
I think this should transform okay. The decisive point is, who owns the
association's end properties.


http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/uml2/docs/articles/Getti ng_Started_with_UML2/article.html

Hope that helps.
Felix
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474578 is a reply to message #474577] Thu, 10 July 2008 16:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 2008-07-10 11:24:21 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:

>
> Hi Rosi,
>
> from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of
> your Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in
> the tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that
> represent the two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported
> by the UML2Ecore transformation process.
>
> Look at how the Associations are created in the Article below.
> I think this should transform okay. The decisive point is, who owns the
> association's end properties.
>
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/uml2/docs/articles/Getti ng_Started_with_UML2/article.html

Hope
>
> that helps.
> Felix


Felix,

thanks for looking this through. I finally understand: when I move the
properties to their respective classes, the transformation works ok.

Thanks again and kind regards,
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474579 is a reply to message #474578] Thu, 10 July 2008 16:53 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hey Barbara

first, I am sorry for calling you Rosi. I am from Germany where this
used to be a first name (shortcut) which is dying out. I was so
delighted by seeing this - I thought its your first name, well..

Anyway, there is a cool article by Ed Merks about Associations and Ecore
here:

http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/01/modeling-associations-w ith-ecore.html

Felix
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474681 is a reply to message #474579] Fri, 11 July 2008 10:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 2008-07-10 17:53:44 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:

> Hey Barbara
>
> first, I am sorry for calling you Rosi. I am from Germany where this
> used to be a first name (shortcut) which is dying out. I was so
> delighted by seeing this - I thought its your first name, well..
>
> Anyway, there is a cool article by Ed Merks about Associations and Ecore here:
>
> http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/01/modeling-associations-w ith-ecore.html
>
> Felix

Felix,

Great article, thanks, just what I needed!

As a consolation, I can offer the fact that, although my name is not
German, half of my surname (Schwartz) is!... ;-)

And I do love Germany, I'm even thinking of moving there at some point.

Tschuess,
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #474686 is a reply to message #474577] Mon, 14 July 2008 16:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Felix Dorner wrote:
>
> Hi Rosi,
>
> from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of
> your Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in
> the tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that
> represent the two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported
> by the UML2Ecore transformation process.
>

Is there a place where the UML2Ecore transformation is documented?
Google didn't help me much in finding documentation for this, and as I
played with it for a bit I had similar problems with associations.

Jochen
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #475678 is a reply to message #474686] Thu, 02 October 2008 13:29 Go to previous message
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Jochen,

Unfortunately, there isn't. We've long recognized the need for such an
article, but haven't been able to find the time to write one... Perhaps
someone in the community would be interested in making such a
contribution...

Kenn

"Jochen" <jochen.wuttke@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Felix Dorner wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rosi,
>>
>> from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of your
>> Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in the
>> tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that represent the
>> two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported by the
>> UML2Ecore transformation process.
>>
>
> Is there a place where the UML2Ecore transformation is documented? Google
> didn't help me much in finding documentation for this, and as I played
> with it for a bit I had similar problems with associations.
>
> Jochen
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #620484 is a reply to message #474567] Wed, 09 July 2008 13:38 Go to previous message
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On 2008-07-08 16:38:04 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:

> Barbara Rosi-Schwartz wrote:
>> On 2008-07-08 15:43:27 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:
>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Barbara Rosi-Schwartz wrote:
>>>>> Hi everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a UML model that I created with Eclipse's UML2. When I try to
>>>>> convert it to an EMF model, everything is loaded correctly (apart from
>>>>> a few warnings that are alien to my model) except for the associations.
>>>>> The associations are compositions or aggregations. I also have a couple
>>>>> of generalisations and those are converted fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> Who owns the Association Ends?
>>
>> Hi Felix and thanks for the speedy reply.
>>
>> Since the associations are unidirectional, I believe one should belong
>> to the end type and the other to the association itself.
>
> I guess you mean the opposite end type. This sounds ok.
>
>>
>> However I created the model with the graphical editor, as opposed to
>> filling in properties, and when I look at the corresponding properties,
>> properties such as "aggregation" are set to "none", even though I
>> explicitly chose a composition. Should I be filling in properties by
>> hand?
>
> I never really worked with UML2Tools, they have their own group too.
>
>> Also, how do I tell who owns the association ends in the model itself?
>
> Just look at the parent of each end. This is the owner.

Thanks.

So, where to go from here regarding my original problem?
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621249 is a reply to message #474572] Wed, 09 July 2008 15:45 Go to previous message
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>>>>>> I have a UML model that I created with Eclipse's UML2. When I try
>>>>>> to convert it to an EMF model, everything is loaded correctly
>>>>>> (apart from a few warnings that are alien to my model) except for
>>>>>> the associations. The associations are compositions or
>>>>>> aggregations. I also have a couple of generalisations and those
>>>>>> are converted fine.

You could send us an example model, that when converting to ecore, shows
the behaviour you mentioned.
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621250 is a reply to message #474572] Wed, 09 July 2008 20:46 Go to previous message
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Hi Barbara,

What UML editor are you using to create your model? If using Topcased, it
will always create associations with both ends owned by the Association, and
this model style (although valid UML), is not compatible with the Ecore
generation.

Many other UML editors will always represent navigable association end
properties as owned by the source class, or maybe have an option to create
them this way. This is the only representation supported by Ecore
generation.

UML 2 allows a navigable association end (a Property) to be owned either by
the source class of the association, or by the Association itself. When a
navigable end is owned by the Association, the Property's isNavigable
attribute must be 'true'. This latter approach is valid, but not supported
by the UML-to-Ecore, so these navigable properties (owned by the
Association) will never appear in the resulting EMF.

Does this help explain the situation?

Regards,
Dave Carlson

>
> Thanks.
>
> So, where to go from here regarding my original problem?
> B.
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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621251 is a reply to message #474575] Thu, 10 July 2008 09:03 Go to previous message
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On 2008-07-09 21:46:50 +0100, "Dave Carlson" <dcarlson@xmlmodeling.com> said:

> Hi Barbara,
>
> What UML editor are you using to create your model? If using Topcased, it
> will always create associations with both ends owned by the Association, and
> this model style (although valid UML), is not compatible with the Ecore
> generation.
>
> Many other UML editors will always represent navigable association end
> properties as owned by the source class, or maybe have an option to create
> them this way. This is the only representation supported by Ecore
> generation.
>
> UML 2 allows a navigable association end (a Property) to be owned either by
> the source class of the association, or by the Association itself. When a
> navigable end is owned by the Association, the Property's isNavigable
> attribute must be 'true'. This latter approach is valid, but not supported
> by the UML-to-Ecore, so these navigable properties (owned by the
> Association) will never appear in the resulting EMF.
>
> Does this help explain the situation?
>
> Regards,
> Dave Carlson
>

Dave and Felix, thank you both.

The editor I am using is Eclipse's own UML2 editor, which is
instantiated when I request New --> UML 2.1 Diagrams --> Class Diagram.

I have been looking through the properties of my associations, but I do
not see an isNavigable attribute. Where is it located?

In any case, I have created a very small sample model with two classes
and an association between them of the type that I have in my own
model. When I create an EMF project and import the UML model into it,
the resulting Ecore model is missing the association. I am attaching a
zip file with both en "example" project containing the UML model and an
"example.emf" project containing the resulting Ecore model.

I am sure this way it will be easier for you to spot where I am going wrong.

Thanks again,
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621252 is a reply to message #474576] Thu, 10 July 2008 10:24 Go to previous message
Felix Dorner is currently offline Felix DornerFriend
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Hi Rosi,

from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of
your Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in
the tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that
represent the two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported
by the UML2Ecore transformation process.

Look at how the Associations are created in the Article below.
I think this should transform okay. The decisive point is, who owns the
association's end properties.


http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/uml2/docs/articles/Getti ng_Started_with_UML2/article.html

Hope that helps.
Felix
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621254 is a reply to message #474577] Thu, 10 July 2008 16:06 Go to previous message
Barbara Rosi-Schwartz is currently offline Barbara Rosi-SchwartzFriend
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On 2008-07-10 11:24:21 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:

>
> Hi Rosi,
>
> from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of
> your Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in
> the tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that
> represent the two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported
> by the UML2Ecore transformation process.
>
> Look at how the Associations are created in the Article below.
> I think this should transform okay. The decisive point is, who owns the
> association's end properties.
>
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/uml2/docs/articles/Getti ng_Started_with_UML2/article.html

Hope
>
> that helps.
> Felix


Felix,

thanks for looking this through. I finally understand: when I move the
properties to their respective classes, the transformation works ok.

Thanks again and kind regards,
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621255 is a reply to message #474578] Thu, 10 July 2008 16:53 Go to previous message
Felix Dorner is currently offline Felix DornerFriend
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Hey Barbara

first, I am sorry for calling you Rosi. I am from Germany where this
used to be a first name (shortcut) which is dying out. I was so
delighted by seeing this - I thought its your first name, well..

Anyway, there is a cool article by Ed Merks about Associations and Ecore
here:

http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/01/modeling-associations-w ith-ecore.html

Felix
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621256 is a reply to message #474579] Fri, 11 July 2008 10:29 Go to previous message
Barbara Rosi-Schwartz is currently offline Barbara Rosi-SchwartzFriend
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On 2008-07-10 17:53:44 +0100, Felix Dorner <felix_do@web.de> said:

> Hey Barbara
>
> first, I am sorry for calling you Rosi. I am from Germany where this
> used to be a first name (shortcut) which is dying out. I was so
> delighted by seeing this - I thought its your first name, well..
>
> Anyway, there is a cool article by Ed Merks about Associations and Ecore here:
>
> http://ed-merks.blogspot.com/2008/01/modeling-associations-w ith-ecore.html
>
> Felix

Felix,

Great article, thanks, just what I needed!

As a consolation, I can offer the fact that, although my name is not
German, half of my surname (Schwartz) is!... ;-)

And I do love Germany, I'm even thinking of moving there at some point.

Tschuess,
B.

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Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #621264 is a reply to message #474577] Mon, 14 July 2008 16:14 Go to previous message
Jochen Wuttke is currently offline Jochen WuttkeFriend
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Felix Dorner wrote:
>
> Hi Rosi,
>
> from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of
> your Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in
> the tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that
> represent the two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported
> by the UML2Ecore transformation process.
>

Is there a place where the UML2Ecore transformation is documented?
Google didn't help me much in finding documentation for this, and as I
played with it for a bit I had similar problems with associations.

Jochen
Re: Associations lost when converting from UML [message #622762 is a reply to message #474686] Thu, 02 October 2008 13:29 Go to previous message
Kenn Hussey is currently offline Kenn HusseyFriend
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Jochen,

Unfortunately, there isn't. We've long recognized the need for such an
article, but haven't been able to find the time to write one... Perhaps
someone in the community would be interested in making such a
contribution...

Kenn

"Jochen" <jochen.wuttke@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:g5fu1a$hh$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Felix Dorner wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rosi,
>>
>> from looking at the serialized uml model, I can see that the ends of your
>> Association are owned by the Association. You can see this also in the
>> tree model viewer, as the Association has two children that represent the
>> two ends. This kind of Association model is not supported by the
>> UML2Ecore transformation process.
>>
>
> Is there a place where the UML2Ecore transformation is documented? Google
> didn't help me much in finding documentation for this, and as I played
> with it for a bit I had similar problems with associations.
>
> Jochen
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