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What is reverse engineering?

What is reverse engineering?

Reverse engineering is the process of examining and recovering data or source code from a file that is then used to build or update an OOM. You reverse engineer objects to an OOM via a diagram. You can reverse engineer objects to a new model, or to an existing model. When you reverse engineer an object that already exists in a model, you can choose in an object comparison box either to replace the existing object, or to keep the existing object in the model.

 

 

Parsing

 

 

PowerDesigner uses parser software for reverse engineering XML, that

 

 

was developed by the Apache Software Foundation

 

 

(http://www.apache.org/).

 

 

 

You can reverse the following type of files into an OOM:

 

Java

 

PowerBuilder

 

XML

Reverse

You can reverse engineer an existing database into a new OOM. The data

engineering into a

source can be either from a script file or an ODBC data source.

new OOM

This functionality is accessible from the FileReverse Engineering menu.

 

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