Luis Lejter

The Cairngorm plugin has been rebranded the Flex Builder Enterprise plugin. (Alternatively the Enterprise plugin for Flex Builder, if Adobe does not like the former). The scope of the plugin really goes beyond Cairngorm and now aims to be “the tool” to complement Flex Builder for Flex Enterprise development.

On this note I am pleased to say I have implemented preliminary UML 2.1 support. Some of you had asked for UML capabilities and after some consideration I decided to go for it. The UML support implemented at this time consists of the following:

• Generate UML class model from project AS classes
• Generate AS classes from UML class model

The UML class model file format supported at this time is the .uml format used in the Model Development Tools (MDT) Eclipse project. As such it is compatible with the Graphical UML2 Editors part of the UML2 Tools sub-project that will be released in the Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) coming June Release (pre-release available in the Eclipse 3.3M6 build). It should be importable and exportable to other UML formats (like Rational) by using the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF).

I am sorry about the delayed beta, it is still coming and it is a free (and eventually open) beta. I will be taking some time off the day job to get this finally out the door. I do think this is an exciting tool, at least I am having fun developing it.

Hello Everybody,

First of all I want to thank all of you that have expressed support and interest for the plugin, specially for the patience :-). I had intended to release the plugin sooner. I still need to complete the plugin feature (for you not familiar with Eclipse features, they are used for branding and required for update-manager capable plugins). I also need to write release notes (there are some known issues and bugs).

Some of you have kindly offered to beta test the product. I am going to have a private beta starting this weekend, and hopefully by the end of next week depending on how many bugs pop up I will open the beta and make it public.

If you are interested in participating, please email me, the only requirement is to provide feedback in terms of bugs, problems or suggestions.

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: I am preparing a public demo of the Plugin that will take place this Friday; the beta will start during the weekend, I need to get the demo out of the way first. Thanks to everybody that have expressed interest so far, I apologize if I have not been able to reply individually to everybody yet.