Importing a Rational Rose Model into an OOM

You can import Rational Rose (.MDL) models created with version 98, 2000, and 2002 into an OOM.

Note: A Rose model can support one or several languages whereas a PowerDesigner OOM can only have a single object language. When you import a multi-language Rose model into an OOM, the OOM will have only one of the object languages of the Rose model. The following table shows how Rose languages are converted to PowerDesigner languages:

Rose Language

PowerDesigner Language

CORBA

IDL-CORBA

Java

Java

C++

C++

VC++

C++

XML-DTD

XML-DTD

Visual Basic

Visual Basic 6

Analysis, Oracle 8, Ada, COM, Web Modeler, and all other languages

Analysis
  1. Select File > Import > Rational Rose File, and browse to the directory that contains the Rose file.
  2. Select Rational Rose Model (*.MDL) file from the Files of Type list, and then select the file to import.
  3. Click Open.
    The import process begins, and the default diagram of the model opens in the canvas. General Rose objects are imported as follows:

    Rose Object

    OOM Object

    Package

    Package

    Note: The Global property is not imported.

    Diagram

    Diagram

    Note

    Note

    Note link

    Note link

    Text

    Text

    File

    File

    Only the following properties are imported for the Rose model object:

    Rose Property

    OOM Property

    Documentation

    Comment

    Zoom

    Page scale

    Stereotype

    Stereotype
Parent topic: Building OOMs