| General Questions |
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What is Visual Paradigm Suite (VP Suite)? |
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What is Smart Development Environment for NetBeans/Sun One (SDE-NB)? |
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What are the differences between SDE-NB and VP-UML NetBeans Integration? |
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What are the differences between editions of SDE-NB? |
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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 SDE-NB connect to the Teamwork Server? |
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Did SDE-NB have floating license? |
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| Code Engineering |
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How can I perform code generation/reverse engineering on SDE-NB? |
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Does SDE-NB support C++ code engineering? |
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Does SDE-NB support .NET code engineering? |
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Does SDE-NB support J2SE 5.0 code engineering? |
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Can I perform code generation/reverse engineering with SDE-NB other than Class Diagram? |
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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 SDE-NB? |
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What version of NetBeans/Sun™ ONE Studio does SDE-NB support? |
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Can I install more than one copy of SDE-NB on the same machine? |
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Can I install both SDE-NB and DB VISHAL ARCHITECT for NetBeans (DBVA-NB) on the same NetBeans? |
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Can I install both VP-UML IDE Integration and SDE-NB on the same NetBeans? |
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Did SDE-NB work on Sun Java Studio Creator? |
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| Import and Export |
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What version of XMI that SDE-NB support? |
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Why there are no diagrams created when I import project from XMI? |
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Does SDE-NB support import models from Rose or XDE? |
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| Plug-in |
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What is plug-in in SDE-NB? |
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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 SDE-NB for internal training purpose in my company? |
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How can I remove the pattern watermark when using the community edition? |
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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 Smart Development Environment for NetBeans/Sun One (SDE-NB)? |
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SDE-NB is an UML CASE tools which embedded itself into NetBeans/Sun Java Studio Enterprise. It combines professional UML modeling, advanced code engineering and excellent interoperability into a single development platform. As it is embedded into the NetBeans, 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 SDE-NB and VP-UML NetBeans Integration? |
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SDE-NB is embedded inside the NetBeans which has the same look & feel also share the same VM. It only takes one process when both NetBeans and SDE are launched.
VP-UML NetBeans Integration is works in parallel with the NetBeans. The VP-UML and NetBeans are work in different process (different VM). The two applications communicate with each other to perform the code/model synchronization. The VP-UML will have similar look & feel to the NetBeans when performing the integration.
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What are the differences between editions of SDE-NB? |
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SDE-NB provides different editions aimed from personal learning to enterprise production usage. The major differences are the supported functionalities and the license terms. Except the Community Edition and Personal Edition, all editions can be used in production environment. Furthermore, the Community Edition only allows a maximum of one diagram for each type of UML diagram per project, and all the diagrams and documentations generated from both the Community Edition and the Personal Edition will show a small Visual Paradigm logo at the top left corner.
For more information about the supported features, please go to http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/sde/nb/sdenbeditioncomparison.jsp.
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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 SDE-NB, 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 SDE-NB connect to the Teamwork Server? |
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SDE-NB can connect to the Teamwork Server to perform teamwork operations (Modeler Edition or above). 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 SDE-NB have floating license? |
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Yes, SDE-NB have floating license (Modeler Edition or above) and it can connect with the Floating License Server to obtain the license key. |
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| Code Engineering |
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How can I perform code generation/reverse engineering on SDE-NB? |
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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 SDE-NB support C++ code engineering? |
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SDE-NB support code generation on C++ through Instant Generator. Besides, our another product, SDE for Visual Studio can fully integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio and provides code-model synchronization support. For more information please visit SDE for Visual Studio product website. |
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Does SDE-NB support .NET code engineering? |
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SDE-NB support code generation on .NET languages through Instant Generator. Besides, our another product, SDE for Visual Studio fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and provides code-model synchronization support. For more information please visit SDE for Visual Studio product website. |
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Does SDE-NB support J2SE 5.0 code engineering? |
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SDE-NB 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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Can I perform code generation/reverse engineering with SDE-NB other than Class Diagram? |
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SDE-NB only supports code generation/reverse engineering on class models. |
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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 SDE-NB? |
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SDE-NB 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 NetBeans/Sun™ ONE Studio does SDE-NB support? |
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SDE-NB supports NetBeans 4.0 and Sun™ ONE Studio 5 or above. |
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Can I install more than one copy of SDE-NB on the same machine? |
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Yes, you can install multiple SDE-NB on the same machine, the only limitation is each SDE-NB must at most install to one NetBeans, and it cannot installed to a NetBeans that already integrated with VP-UML. |
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Can I install both SDE-NB and DB VISHAL ARCHITECT for NetBeans (DBVA-NB) on the same NetBeans? |
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No. Installing both SDE-NB and DBVA-NB on the same NetBeans will cause conflict and both of them will not work. Installing the Enterprise Edition of SDE-NB also covers the data modeling and Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) features of DBVA-NB. |
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Can I install both VP-UML IDE Integration and SDE-NB on the same NetBeans? |
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No. Installing both VP-UML IDE Integration and SDE-NB on the same NetBeans will cause conflict and both of them will not work. |
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Did SDE-NB work on Sun Java Studio Creator? |
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SDE-NB only works on NetBeans and Sun Java Studio Enterprise. |
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| Import and Export |
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What version of XMI that SDE-NB support? |
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SDE-NB 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 SDE-NB support import models from Rose or XDE? |
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SDE-NB 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 SDE-NB? |
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The SDE-NB plug-in is a small program that can integrate with SDE-NB 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 SDE-NB 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 community edition or personal edition on any production usage). If user need to use the product on commercial usage, please select the modeler edition or above. |
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Can I use SDE-NB for internal training purpose in my company? |
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Community Edition is only for "non-commercial use" only. For internal training purpose, please contact training@visual-paradigm.com for more information. |
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How can I remove the pattern watermark when using the community edition? |
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The pattern watermark shows because you have created more than one diagram of at least one diagram type. If there are more than one diagrams of any type, it will switch to evaluation mode. Diagram printed will contain pattern watermarks. To avoid the problem happening again, please create not more than one diagram of any type in Community Edition. |
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