Linking and Synchronizing Models

The chapters in this part describe the PowerDesigner features that help you create links between models and trace the impact of changes between models.

• Getting Started with Linking and Synching
  The PowerDesigner Enterprise Modeling environment allow you to create and exploit complex interdependencies between your models.
• Generating Models and Model Objects
  PowerDesigner provides a number of predefined model-to-model generation paths along with a mechanism for generating any model object into any other kind of object in another type of model.
• Shortcuts and Object Replications
  Shortcuts and object replications allow you to reuse objects defined in one model or package elsewhere.
• Object Mappings
  Object mapping allows you to establish connections between objects belonging to heterogeneous models and diagrams. You create mappings between objects to model O/R (Object-Relational) mappings, which associate classes with tables to store OOM objects into a relational database, or simply to express a correspondence between objects in different models.
• Impact and Lineage Analysis
  PowerDesigner provides powerful tools for analyzing the dependencies between model objects. When you perform an action on a model object, you can use: