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Bug 344202

Summary:	COULD NOT MAKE UML2 TOOL WORK IN ECLIPSE
Product:	[Modeling] GMF-Tooling	Reporter:	ibradleyallen
Component:	Samples	Assignee:	Dummy mdt uml2 tools inbox <mdt-uml2tools-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cedric.brun, chris.waniek, Ed.Merks, frederic.jouault, jean.bezivin, Kenn.Hussey, pelder.eclipse, richard.gronback, sebastien.demathieu, sven.efftinge
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
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Description ibradleyallen

2011-04-28 16:31:42 EDT

Software Engineer (myself) unable to find, install and use the UML2 add in for the Eclipse platform.  Goal is to have a working GUI to manually draw and input a UML2 diagram that was written in another platform and doesnt import.  Following the instructions I found on getting UML2 installed and working, having done this on 3 different PC computer machines over 2 weeks (or more), This morning it is adversely impacting my schedule, because it was scheduled to have been done, so Im submitting this bug report.





-- Configuration Details --
Product: Eclipse 1.3.2.20110218-0812 (org.eclipse.epp.package.modeling.product)
Installed Features:
 org.eclipse.platform 3.6.2.r362_v20110210-9gF78Gs1FrIGnHDHWkEcopoN8AmxeZflGDGKQi

Comment 1 Ed Merks

2011-04-29 07:38:24 EDT

It seems to me UML2 itself is easy to install from the common repo but UML2 Tools isn't there and take much more effort.  Is that what you're complaining about?

Comment 2 Cedric Brun

2011-04-29 08:39:06 EDT

UML2Tools is pretty much discontinued and Papyrus is a project focusing on end users, I would say you should try Papyrus to see if it fit your needs. 

Installing it is quite straightforward, download the Eclipse modeling package, pick the "Install Modeling Components" action, select papyrus, next, finish and voila, you're done !

Comment 3 ibradleyallen

2011-04-29 11:54:51 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> It seems to me UML2 itself is easy to install from the common repo but UML2
> Tools isn't there and take much more effort.  Is that what you're complaining
> about?

It is that the documentation indicated or suggested I could open a project and edit UML diagrams graphically; BUT installing a text version from the common repo was easy, yes; the graphical tools were not there.  The documentation suggested that the Eclipse platform offered end to end UML design capability.  IF that is the case then it is overly difficult to install

Comment 4 ibradleyallen

2011-04-29 13:21:28 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> UML2Tools is pretty much discontinued and Papyrus is a project focusing on end
> users, I would say you should try Papyrus to see if it fit your needs. 
> 
> Installing it is quite straightforward, download the Eclipse modeling package,
> pick the "Install Modeling Components" action, select papyrus, next, finish and
> voila, you're done !

Ok I just finished installing and testing it out, this works as I had expected.  When searching text before I did not see the association between "UML" and "Papyrus";  Perhaps the Eclipse documentation can include more about how UML graphical design points to "the Papyrus Project" that would be a great fix.  

Im running Eclipse Modeling Tools

Version: Helios Service Release 2
Build id: 20110301-1815

And have installed the Papyrus "extras" or add-ins and this provides the UI that I was looking for.  With this, I can now run UML design in Eclipse and my concerns are satisfied.

Can the main Eclipse UML page/documentation results be updated to associate UML with Papyrus?

Comment 5 Christian Waniek

2011-05-09 06:31:07 EDT

There is only an interim build, which can be isntalled into eclipse 3.6. You can install it from
http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/updates/interim/
or
http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/uml2tools/updates/interim/

Releasing a new R-Build of Uml2Tools takes much mor effort , but I try to do this as soon as possible.