Preface

One of the great things in Enterprise Architect is the possibility to extend standard UML modeling by usage of so-called MDG (Model Driven Generation) files. With these you can – in short – add own diagram types offering your own sets of stereotype elements and connectors (with individual shapes) in customized tool boxes. Here is how you can approach the generation of such MDG files.

The EA version used to create this book was actually 12 (build 1215). However, most of the tools are also available in earlier versions of EA. The menu structures change from release to release and you will eventually need to poke around a bit to find the right one. If you really got stuck with the menus or other things just drop me a mail: thomas.kilian@me.com.

Starting with EA Version 15 Sparx introduced a couple of new things with profiles. Since I got more reluctant with using Sparx releases (since V14) I’m still on V13.5. I might look into these things later once I get my hands on a more attracting EA version.