astah* API User Guide

October 17, 2013
Change Vision, Inc.

[What's astah* API]

[Permission to Use]

• Redistribution of astah-api.jar (.jar format file of astah* API) is not allowed.
• By using astah* API, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of [astah* END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT].

[astah* API System Requirements]

• Ensure that an appropriate version of Java is installed to run astah*
• astah* software needs to be installed
  • astah-api.jar is required for application compilation
  • astah-api.jar and lib/slf4j-api-1.6.6.jar and astah-pro.jar (astah-uml.jar, astah-community.jar) are required for execution of applications
  • Please let a class path pass to installation folder/lib/*.jar.
  • Optional JAVA VM memory management setup is needed when the size of your astah* project file is large
    (Example of set up for VM Startup Option as initial heap size 16MB and maximum heap size 256MB)
    -Xms16m -Xmx256m
• Supported astah* API features
  • astah* community supports reference function of astah* API
  • astah* UML, professional support reference, create and edit functions of astah* API

[How to use astah* API and Samples]

1. How to handle projects
2. How to get Model Information
3. How to create models
4. How to edit models
5. Presentation overview
6. How to obtain presentation information
7. DiagramEditor
8. Creating/Deleting diagrams
9. Creating/Deleting Presentation
10. Editing presentations
11. Transaction operation
12. Programming Language Information for Project
13. Import/Export XML
14. Add, Update and Delete Reference Project
15. Easy Merge
16. Sample Applications
17. Supported Models

[Features]

[Model]

• Referencing of models is available for following diagrams:
  Class Diagram, UseCase Diagram, Statemachine Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Communication Diagram, Composite Structure Diagram, Flowchart, DataFlow Diagram(DFD), ER Diagram and Requirement Diagram.
• Creating/Modifying/Deleting of models are available for following diagrams:
  Class Diagram, UseCase Diagram, Statemachine Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Composite Structure Diagram, ER Diagram and Requirement Diagram

[Diagram]

• Reference/deleting of diagrams are available for following diagrams:
  Class Diagram, UseCase Diagram, Statemachin Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Communication Diagram, Component Diagram, Deployment Diagram, Composite Structure Diagram, Flowchart, Data Flow Diagram(DFD), ER Diagram, CRUD, Mind Map and Requirement Diagram
• Creating/Modifying of diagrams are available for following diagrams:
  Class Diagram, UseCase Diagram, Statemachine Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Composite Structure Diagram, ER Diagram, Mind Map and Requirement Diagram

[Presentation]

• Reference of presentations is available for following diagrams:
  Class Diagram, UseCase Diagram, Statemachine Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Communication Diagram, Composite Structure Diagram, Flowchart, DataFlow Diagram(DFD), ER Diagram, CRUD, Mind Map and Requirement Diagram.
• Creating/Modifying/Deleting of presentations are available for following diagrams:
  Class Diagram, UseCase Diagram, Statemachine Diagram, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram, Composite Structure Diagram, ER Diagram, Mind Map and Requirement Diagram

[Notes]

• Multi-threading of astah* API is not supported
• When opening a project file by astah* API (ProjectAccessor.open(String projectName)), an error may occur due to the file lock. In this case, please close the project file which may be opened in astah*, and then try reopening it by astah* API. Or, you can specify the method to open a project file in read-only mode. (Set true to allowReadOnly).
  ProjectAccessor.open(String projectName, boolean isIgnoreModelVersion, boolean lockMode, boolean allowReadOnly)

[Additional information about Model elements]

What is the difference between UML metamodel and astah* API?

Class elements which contain Icon Notations

About TaggedValue(ITaggedValue)