Language Support

EINA is designed to support all commercial object-oriented "round- trip engineering" languages. In addition to generate code, EINA can import code modifying the repository design and/or generating new versions. To ensure round-trip's functionality, EINA does not use mark-up languages.

Code generation can be adapted to users preferences customizing  it through variable templates.

EINA supports Java, Smalltalk, C++, C# and Cobol 200x.

To adapt EINA's development tool to the specific supported language and to avoid syntactic errors as much as possible, a "language environment" can be specified during design model's development.

Reusability Management

Reusability Management is essential in an Object-Oriented environment to improve development productivity and quality. An error free certified component or “asset” to be reused saves programming time and improves the application quality

Reusability Management begins with a certification process to define the policy of the product to be developed, then follows a cataloguing process of the component using key words. The component can be placed physically in the library or it can be store in an external disk.

EINA’s reusability has many possibilities, in addition to the component cataloguing feature it also can catalogue documentary templates, processing manuals, etc. This is accomplished defining components classes with different information levels

Error and Change Tracking

When an error is identified it is register into the database and a correction process begins.

The following data is registered for each error:

• user who identified the error,

• a problem description,

• error's detection date,

• error's severity,

• cost center to charge the correction of the error and

• technician assigned to fix the error.

Error correction protocol:

• The technician assigned to the error performs a cost and time estimation.

• The technician creates a "Trace" between the error in the program and all modules to be modified.

• The technician assigned to the error takes the correction task.

• The completion date is registered once corrected the error (to keep a record of response time to users),

• a new release is issued to the user.

“Change tracking” operates in a very similar way. In addition it has other features like associated cost centers, lower priorities, etc.

Software Knowledge Management

The same module that allows cataloguing computer components can also list any type of document related or not to a component. These documents can be associated to others to create a document network, or correlations, that describe part of the organization’s computer knowledge.

Documents can be internal or external and if in XML format, cataloguing may be much more effective.