[dponos]

I am currently evaluating the Omondo UML eclipse plugin for my company. I am running JDK 1.4.2_01, Eclipse 3.0 RC2, and EclipseUML 1.0.0.20040614 Studio.

The eclipse install is a "fresh" install with no other plugins. I have created only 1 project in eclipse for testing UML diagrams.

I have created a class diagram, with 13 classes. There are a few associations between the classes, and a few inheritence relationships that I created as well. There are no references to classes outside the package except for Java.util.Collection references.

I am experiencing what I consider a major problem maintaining the integrity of the class diagram. When I close the class diagram and open it later, I sometimes wind up losing associations between the classes. Sometimes I can re-establish the association in the diagram by selecting associations->showAssociation. Sometimes I can't re-establish the association because it is simply not available anymore. Other times I can't because the the showAssociation tab shows "Collection" instead of the class that I originally associated to. The more I try to fix it, the more messed up the diagram becomes each time I re-open it.

Because I have read so many good reviews about this product, I am having a hard time believing that this is the way the product regularly behaves. I am hoping that there is something fundamental that I am not configuring correctly, and that this is a fairly common newbie mistake.

Any help would be appreciated and I'll be glad to furnish whatever additional information someone may need in order to give me an answer.

Thanks!

[dponos]

I've been spending quite a bit of time trying to characterize the problem I am having.

One issue is definitely with the associations. Although it's not 100% consistent, I eventually lose any association I establish in the Class diagram after I close the file and open it again. I will often get an error dialog telling me that the specific association could not be found. This usually happens on a 1-to-many associations but has also happened with 1-to-1 associations as well.

If I spend time trying to re-establish associations and fix the class diagram, the diagram gets in a more, and more corrupt state. Until eventually, really strange things start happening like 1-to-1 associations are mapped to the wrong classes, the layout of the diagram gets all messed up, etc......

It's really frustrating because I don't experience ANY of these issues when I use the free edition. The free edition also does not generate UML tags in the javadoc. I'm suspecting that the problem is related to this.

The Help documentation seems to be documentation geared towards Eclipse 2.1.1, so it hasn't been very helpful thus far.

I am hoping to at least get a reply that confirms or denies this problem.

[varnica]

Hello Dponos,

This bug has been corrected ! Please use our latest RC3 release
Thanks for your report.

Omondo

[dponos]

Thanks. I have installed the new build and was not able to reproduce any of the problems I was previously experiencing.

The omondo support team was very helpful in getting things straightened out for me.