| General Questions |
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What is Visual Paradigm Suite (VP Suite)? |
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What is DB Visual ARCHITECT for IntelliJ IDEA (DBVA-IJ)? |
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What are the differences between DBVA-IJ and DB-VA IntelliJ IDEA Integration? |
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What user languages are available? |
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I have Visio 2003 and Microsoft .NET Framework installed, but still cannot import the stencils. What can I do? |
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My Report Writer becomes grayed and inactive after creating a new report. Why this happen? |
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Can I use Report Writer on Linux? |
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Can DBVA-IJ connect to the Teamwork Server? |
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Did DBVA-IJ have floating license? |
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| Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) |
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Did the generated persistence layer redistributable? It seems that some generated library is not belongs to my project. |
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What database server that DBVA-IJ supports? |
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Where can I download the JDBC drivers for my database? |
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| Code Engineering |
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How can I perform code generation/reverse engineering on DBVA-IJ? |
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Does DBVA-IJ support J2SE 5.0 code engineering? |
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When I was performing C++ Instant Reverse, it said "No class construct is found in user's files". What does it mean? |
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| Download & Installation |
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Where can I download the DBVA-IJ? |
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What version of IntelliJ IDEA does DBVA-IJ support? |
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Can I install more than one copy of DBVA-IJ on the same machine? |
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Can I install both SDE-IJ and DB VISHAL ARCHITECT for IntelliJ IDEA (DBVA-IJ) on the same IntelliJ IDEA? |
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Can I install both DB-VA IDE Integration and DBVA-IJ on the same IntelliJ IDEA? |
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| Import and Export |
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What version of XMI that DBVA-IJ support? |
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Why there are no diagrams created when I import project from XMI? |
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Does DBVA-IJ support import models from Rose or XDE? |
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| Plug-in |
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What is plug-in in DBVA-IJ? |
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Where can I find more information about plug-in? |
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| Licensing |
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What's the meaning of "non-commercial use"? |
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Can I use DBVA-IJ for internal training purpose in my company? |
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| General Questions |
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What is Visual Paradigm Suite (VP Suite)? |
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Visual Paradigm Suite is a group of software designed to accelerate your development in the whole software development life-cycle. It includes Visual Paradigm for UML (VP-UML), Smart Development Environment (SDE), Business Process Visual ARCHITECT (BP-VA), DB Visual ARCHITECT (DB-VA), Agilian (AG) and DB Visual ARCHITECT SQL (DB-VA SQL). |
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What is DB Visual ARCHITECT for IntelliJ IDEA (DBVA-IJ)? |
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DBVA-IJ is an easy-to-use object-relational mapping (ORM) environment which embedded itself into IntelliJ IDEA. It provides a professional data modeling, advanced code engineering and excellent interoperability into a single development platform. As it is embedded into the IntelliJ IDEA, it gives you the unified look & feel throughout the design and development process thus greatly enhance the productivity and reduce the learning curve from getting familiar another modeling tools. |
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What are the differences between DBVA-IJ and DB-VA IntelliJ IDEA Integration? |
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DBVA-IJ is embedded inside the IntelliJ IDEA which has the same look & feel also share the same VM. It only takes one process when both IntelliJ IDEA and DBVA-IJ are launched.
DB-VA IntelliJ IDEA Integration is works in parallel with the IntelliJ IDEA. The DB-VA and IntelliJ IDEA are work in different process (different VM). The two applications communicate with each other to perform the code/model synchronization. The DBVA-IJ will have similar look & feel to the IntelliJ IDEA when performing the integration.
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What user languages are available? |
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Currently we only have English user interface is available. |
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I have Visio 2003 and Microsoft .NET Framework installed, but still cannot import the stencils. What can I do? |
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In order to import Visio stencils into DBVA-IJ, the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and Microsoft Office Visio 2003 must be installed. It is important that you must install .NET Framework before installing Visio. Besides, the "Visio Send to VP" Plug-in must be installed. The plug-in can be found in the "bundled" directory under the VP Suite installation directory. |
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My Report Writer becomes grayed and inactive after creating a new report. Why this happen? |
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We found that there are some problems for the Report Writer if the user's name contains space character. To solve this problem, please run Report Writer under a user account containing no spaces for its name. |
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Can I use Report Writer on Linux? |
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We are sorry that Report Writer currently only support Windows platform. |
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Can DBVA-IJ connect to the Teamwork Server? |
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DBVA-IJ can connect to the Teamwork Server to perform teamwork operations. The build in Teamwork Client helps you to check-in/check-out the projects to and from the server also resolve the conflicts when needed. |
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Did DBVA-IJ have floating license? |
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Yes, DBVA-IJ has floating license and it can connect with the Floating License Server to obtain the license key. |
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| Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) |
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Did the generated persistence layer redistributable? It seems that some generated library is not belongs to my project. |
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The generated persistence layer is redistributable. You can freely distribute it to your clients. |
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What database server that DBVA-IJ supports? |
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DBVA-IJ supports wide range of databases. Please refer to the following page for more information about the supported database.
http://forums.visual-paradigm.com/posts/list/808.html
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Where can I download the JDBC drivers for my database? |
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Please refer to the following page for downloading the JDBC drivers of the supported database.
http://forums.visual-paradigm.com/posts/list/808.html
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| Code Engineering |
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How can I perform code generation/reverse engineering on DBVA-IJ? |
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Code generation/reverse engineering is a very natural action. It can be done through the Auto Synchronization or update manually. There is another handy way for doing the reverse engineering which is called Instant Reverse. Instant Reverse is a one-off reverse engineering options that can reverse various kinds of source/binaries into UML model. |
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Does DBVA-IJ support J2SE 5.0 code engineering? |
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DBVA-IJ does not support J2SE 5.0 code engineering at this moment. Our engineers are working on it. It should be available before the end of this year. |
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When I was performing C++ Instant Reverse, it said "No class construct is found in user's files". What does it mean? |
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Class is the basic unit for performing the C++ Instant Reverse. Although C like source code can also be compiled by a C++ compiler, but it cannot be reversed by Instant Reverse. |
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| Download & Installation |
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Where can I download the DBVA-IJ? |
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DBVA-IJ is bundled inside the VP Suite. You can download the latest version of VP Suite at the following link:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/download/
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What version of IntelliJ IDEA does DBVA-IJ support? |
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DBVA-IJ supports IntelliJ IDEA 4.0 or above, including the 6.0 version which is just released. |
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Can I install more than one copy of DBVA-IJ on the same machine? |
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Yes, you can install multiple DBVA-IJ on the same machine, the only limitation is each DBVA-IJ must at most install to one IntelliJ IDEA, and it cannot installed to a IntelliJ IDEA that already integrated with VP-UML or DB-VA. |
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Can I install both SDE-IJ and DB VISHAL ARCHITECT for IntelliJ IDEA (DBVA-IJ) on the same IntelliJ IDEA? |
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No. Installing both SDE-IJ and DBVA-IJ on the same IntelliJ IDEA will cause conflict and both of them will not work. Installing the Enterprise Edition of SDE-IJ also covers the data modeling and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) features of DBVA-IJ. |
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Can I install both DB-VA IDE Integration and DBVA-IJ on the same IntelliJ IDEA? |
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No. Installing both DB-VA IDE Integration and DBVA-IJ on the same IntelliJ IDEA will cause conflict and both of them will not work. |
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| Import and Export |
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What version of XMI that DBVA-IJ support? |
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DBVA-IJ supports import and export of XMI 1.0/1.2/2.1 for UML 1.x or 2.0. |
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Why there are no diagrams created when I import project from XMI? |
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This is probably because there is no diagram information stored in the original XMI file. Please refer to the documentation of the tool from which the XMI file was created for more details. |
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Does DBVA-IJ support import models from Rose or XDE? |
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DBVA-IJ supports import models and diagrams from Rational Rose only (.mdl file and its associated .cat files). |
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| Plug-in |
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What is plug-in in DBVA-IJ? |
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The DBVA-IJ plug-in is a small program that can integrate with DBVA-IJ and access to the models inside the projects. |
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Where can I find more information about plug-in? |
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You can obtain more information about DBVA-IJ plug-in at the following page:
Plug-in User's Guide and API
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| Licensing |
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What's the meaning of "non-commercial use"? |
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"Non-commercial use" means user cannot use the software for making money (i.e. a commercial organization cannot use the evaluation version on any production usage). If user needs to use the product on commercial usage, please purchase a license. |
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Can I use DBVA-IJ for internal training purpose in my company? |
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For internal training purpose, please contact training@visual-paradigm.com for more information. |
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