Features
Some of the features already implemented and others planned or partially made are shown below.
✔️ - Supported | ✳️ - Partly Supported | ❌ - Not Supported | 〰️ - Not Applicable
| ERtext Feature | Language | Generators | Additional Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entities | ✔️ | ✔️ | Does not discriminate between strong vs weak entities |
| Referential Attribute | ✔️ | ✔️ | isIdentifier |
| Descriptive Attribute | ✔️ | ✔️ | Datatypes are required int double money string boolean datetime file
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| Composite Attribute | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Multi-valued Attribute | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Derived Attribute | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Optional Attribute | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Binary Relationship | ✔️ | ✔️ | entX (0:1) relates (0:1) entY |
| Ternary Relationship | ✔️ | ✔️ | Implied statement |
| N-ary Relationship | ❌ | ❌ | Only binary and ternary |
| Self-relationship | ✔️ | ✔️ | entX (0:1) relates (0:1) entX |
| Roles | ❌ | ❌ | |
| Relationship Attributes | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Cardinalities | ✔️ | ✔️ |
(0:1) (1:1) (0:N) (1:N) Cardinality constraints also supported |
| Generalization | ✔️ | ✔️ |
is total/disjoint is total/overlapped is partial/disjoint is partial/overlapped
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| Conceptual Diagram | ✔️ | ✔️ | Generate Diagram |
| Logical Model | ✔️ | ✔️ | Generate LogicalSchema |
| Physical Model | ✔️ | ✔️ | SQL statements with Generate MySQL or Generate PostgreSQLSupport for PostgreSQL and MySQL models |
| Occurrence Diagram | ✔️ | ✳️ | Generates occurrence diagrams for annotated relationships @generateOccurrenceDiagram
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| Code template Proposals | ✔️ | 〰️ | Ctrl+Space |
| Full Template Proposals | ✳️ | 〰️ | Available in the project or file creation wizard |
| Code Mining | ✳️ | 〰️ | Adds a header to the modeling file with a info summary |
Main developer: Jonnathan Riquelmo
Project members: Maicon Bernardino (Advisor) and Fábio Basso (Co-advisor)
Research group: Laboratory of Empirical Studies in Software Engineering (LESSE)™
Federal University of Pampa (UNIPAMPA) - Campus Alegrete, RS
