Enterprise Architect Advanced Course

The Enterprise Architect Advanced Course presents some advanced functions and methodological topics related to Sparx Enterprise Architect. Like the Foundation Course, the Advanced Course is example-driven: for each chapter, we propose an exercise which allows the participants to put the theoretical lesson into practice, incrementally building a simple system.

Introduction

An introduction to the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and to the model-driven approach:

• models, metamodels, platform-specific languages versus general purpose languages,
• introduction to platform-independent and platform-specific models,
• transformations,
• typical applications of the model-driven methodology.

MDA Transformations

Model-driven transformations:

• the available platforms
• how to run a model-to-model transformation in Enterprise Architect.

Extending UML

How to extend the expressive means provided by UML:

• importing and using UML profiles,
• creating and using design patterns.

The Enterprise Architect SDK

How to use the Enterprise Architect SDK:

• developing custom UML profiles with stereotypes and tagged values,
• designing new diagram types with custom shapes and colors.

Code Engineering

The code engineering features provided by Enterprise Architect:

• generating source code and artifacts (WSDL, DDL etc.) from modeled entities,
• performing reverse engineering of existing source code from files and binaries.

Debugging and Behavioral Reverse Engineering

The behavior-related code engineering features of Enterprise Architect:

• running a reverse-engineered code fragment,
• extracting a behavioral diagram from existing code.

Customizing Document Generation

Customizing the appearance of the generated documents:

• creating and/or modifying RTF generation templates,
• creating and/or modifying HTML generation templates.

Project Management

The auditing features of Enterprise Architect.

Administration Tools

How to use the tools available for system administrators:

• license types, management and renewal,
• user security management and model locks.