• 1 - How to increase your Eclipse memory ?

If you experience an Out of Memory Exception while using EclipseUML, try to increase Eclipse JVM parameter.

Please starts Eclipse with the following parameters :

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xms256m -Xmx256m

-Xms is your minimum JVM memory size.
-Xmx is your maximum JVM memory size.

Check your JDK and check you Eclipse documentation, Help->Workbench User Guide->Tasks->Running Eclipse for further details.

Put these instructions in a batch file.

• 2 - How to create my first class diagram ?

A class diagram must have a package context.

When you create a diagram, make sure you select a package in the package explorer or select a package in the wizard.

When you create a diagram from the package explorer :

• Make sure you select a package.
• Right click.
• From the context menu, choose New->Other->UML->UML Class Diagram

• 3 - How to use EMF ?

Several Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) tutorials are available :

• EclipseUML EMF tutorial, written by the EMF team : Creating an EMF Model using a Graphical Editor.
• General EMF tutorial, written by IBM : Generating an Extended EMF Model.

• 4 - How to use SVG ?

Several ways are available to view Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files. The most common ways are by using browsers.

Free SVG plugins are available from Adobe for common browsers.

The Mozilla project provides SVG solution through a native implementation.

Other SVG solutions are available through various implementations.

• 5 - How to use WMF ?

The Windows Meta File is a vector format file created by Microsoft to be used accross different Windows environments.

Portions of the image are independent from the image as a whole.

You can therefore ungroup and color different portions of your WMF files by using a software like Word.

• 6 - How to clean your Eclipse environment ?

If your set of EclipseUML plugins is not recognized by your Eclipse Platform :

Please starts Eclipse with the following parameter :

eclipse.exe -clean

Here is the definition of this parameter :

Any cached data used by the OSGi framework and eclipse runtime will be wiped clean. This will clean the caches used to store bundle dependency resolution and eclipse extension registry data. Using this option will force eclipse to reinitialize these caches.