For the past week I’ve been doing my bit towards a tool built to support Sparx Systems’ EA UML modelling product. The tool adds a URL protocol handler (Windows machines only!) that will open a design artifact in an EA repository.

Canonic Labs wrote the original code but for some reason didn’t complete/release it. Upon request they recently open sourced what they’d done and I jumped at the chance to finish it off. I can now have links to EA artificats from TFS, Fogbugz, e-mails, etc. without having to create an EA shortcut file each time.

Keep an eye on the project site for details of the upcoming beta.