March 30^th, 2009

The DoDAF plugin for MagicDraw supports all products of Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) specification, including 19 DoDAF specific UML based diagrams, 6 matrix/table products, 6 automatically generated documents. User may also use any from the regular UML, SysML or BPMN diagrams. The DoDAF plugin creates an integrated architecture for managers, architects, developers and others.

DoDAF Samples

After you have installed MagicDraw UML, MagicDraw SysML plugin, and MagicDraw DoDAF plugin samples of DoDAF projects can be found in the samples directory or click here.

Documentation

You may find user's guides and tutorials stored in <MagicDraw home>/manual directory or click here, or read MagicDraw Help, which can be started using Help->Help Contents command.

Compatibility

DoDAF plugin 16.5 beta 2 is compatible with SysML 16.5 beta 2, and MagicDraw 16.5 beta 2:

• Enterprise edition

• Architect edition

• Professional edition

• Standard edition

• Reader edition

For more information about Plugins compatibility, see http://www.magicdraw.com/compatibility.

New features in DoDAF version 16.5 beta 2

• Compatibility with MagicDraw 16.5 beta 2.
• Spell Checking feature in DoDAF model. For more information about new spell checking functionality, see New and Noteworthy.
• A new MagicDraw DoDAFMetaModel UserGuide.pdf document has been created. This guide provide a description of the DoDAF Meta Model structure and its representation in MagicDraw application. You can find "MagicDraw DoDAFMetaModel UserGuide.pdf" in the MagicDraw installation folder after plugin is applied, or download it from the www.magicdraw.com/documentation.

New features in DoDAF version 16.0

New features in DoDAF version 15.5

• Added SOA Service and Service Specification for SOA modeling support.
• Adjusted OV-2 and SV-1 products, report and matrixes.
• New validation rules.

All Platforms Instructions

If you already have DoDAF_Plugin_165beta2.zip downloaded:

1. From the Help main menu in MagicDraw UML application, choose Resource/Plugin Manager.
2. Click the Import button to specify DoDAF Plugin file location. Plugin will be extracted and installed automatically.
3. Restart MagicDraw UML.

To apply DoDAF_Plugin_165beta2.zip manually:

1. Download DoDAF_Plugin_165beta2.zip.
2. Stop MagicDraw UML application.
3. Unzip downloaded file in the directory where MagicDraw is installed.
For Mac OS X users:
1. Copy the DoDAF_Plugin_165beta2.zip file to the MagicDraw UML installation folder MagicDraw UML.
2. Using command line go to the MagicDraw UML folder.
3. Unzip DoDAF_Plugin_165beta2.zip content.
4. Start MagicDraw - DoDAF Plugin is applied to MagicDraw.


Notes: SysML plugin needs to be installed.

Web page

To download the demo of this version and to get contact information, please go to: http://www.magicdraw.com/

E-mail

support@magicdraw.com - for questions about product installation, features, questions like "How do I...", and suggestions.

sales@magicdraw.com - questions regarding academic and site discounts, delivery, customer profile, invoices and related issues.

contact@magicdraw.com - email for other contacts

We are awaiting your comments and suggestions. More than a half of the features of the current version added because our demo version users have requested them. Do not miss the chance to see your desired features in the future versions!

Bug Reports

Your bug reports are welcome at support@magicdraw.com. These reports allow us to fix bugs as soon as possible and release the known-bug-free maintenance releases. While sending the bug report, please, include (if applicable):

• MagicDraw UML version number and the name of the edition (Standard, Enterprise, Professional Java, Professional C++, Professional C#, Demo, or Academic).

• Source where you got the version from (demo CD or our homepage download).

• Your OS name and version.

• JDK version and JVM vendor.

For information about your JVM and OS, see Info tab in About dialog from MagicDraw UML Help menu. If you have a file that the MagicDraw is not able to load and it is not a confidential one, please, attach it as well. This would help us to analyse the problem.

Bugs can be submitted directly from MagicDraw application - Help->Submit a Bug.

Frequently Asked Questions

If MagicDraw client has no expiration date, plugin evaluation version will be working for 7 days period after first installation.
If MagicDraw client has an expiration date, plugin evaluation version will be working until MagicDraw client version is expired.

Remember that plugin evaluation version depends on MagicDraw version. If you have MagicDraw demo version, then you are allowed to save limited number of elements.

Contact your sales executive individually for the fully functional evaluation version.

Third party libraries

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/) and JIDE Software (http://www.jidesoft.com).