Introduction

In the first tutorial, we looked at how to develop the Profile containing the Web Service modeling elements and how to save it as a Profile that can be imported into EA. In this second part of the tutorial we will look into how we can make the Profile and its content more usable by combining it with a Toolbox and a Diagram into an MDG.

Why do we want to combine those and introduce the MDG when the profile already seem to do the trick? The simple answer is ease of use compared to using just the Profile. By adding a toolbox and a diagram, we can make our profile act like any other built in feature and make it a lot easier to use.

Introduction

Those of you that have tried to develop MDG’s for Enterprise Architect (EA) will know that the documentation is not the most intuitive and that most successes are a result of trial and error. At least it has been so for me. So, to make it easier for you to develop MDG’s I have tried to write down what I have done to make things work. There might be other ways to develop an MDG and some of the things I describe might be done smarter or more “right”, but this is what I have found out works.