Exporting UML class diagrams from Myeclipse IDE to ARIS SOA Architect

by Ms. ankita sonal in group ARIS Support
Posted: 2010-07-02
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We are using myeclipse IDE for development. We have a Java/J2EE application which we have reverse engineered to make the class diagrams and sequence diagrams.

We are trying to import these diagrams to ARIS SOA architect as going forward we would like to maintain all application architecture and Business processes in ARIS. We have tried doing the import through the XMI file format. The export from myEclipse is XMI version 2.1 whereas the XMI version supported in ARIS(as per help documentation) is 1.1 . Hence my import into ARIS ,is failing. What is the best way to get the UML diagrams imported to ARIS SOA Architect.

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by Ms. Kerstin Bock on Tue, 2011/01/11 - 12:44pm

I encounter the same problem when trying to import xmi files from ORACLE JDeveloper. Any suggestions how to solve these problems are welcome.

by Mr. Vinay Agarkhed on Mon, 2012/04/30 - 10:21am

Hi All,

I have a xmi file (version 2.1) from IBM IAA, when i try to import it into ABA i got the error "The file is not a valid XMI file."

Do anyone found a resolution to this issue?

Thanks,

Vinay

by Mr. Mike Holdsworth on Sun, 2013/01/06 - 11:55pm

Hi Vinay,

I too am struggling with importing IAA in to ARIS. How far did you get?

To assist others who may find this thread, your issue is that ARIS only supports XMI1.2 while MMM/IAA only exports XMI 2.1 hence the ARIS error message (which you mention in your other post)

I am looking at translating via an intermediary modelling tool that can managed the 2.x->1.x downconversion which looks like it will work.

Biggest remaining hurdle is that ARIS seems to ignore XMI diagram information and just imports the objects leaving a user to recreate all of the diagrams! That's tons of work. This seems to be confirmed by exporting XMI from ARIS as it does not create any Diagram information, just object metadata.