How to Install ObjectAid in 2022?

Question

ObjectAid was a very useful Eclipse plug-in which generates class diagram from your source code.

Unfortunately it looks like it is discontinued in March 2022 or at least its website is not working.

Can anyone tell me from where to download and install it?

Ekaterina

Nobody knows what happened? Its marketplace is available but the website is gone? marketplace.eclipse.org/content/objectaid-uml-explorer – Counterproof

Does anyone has any way to know what happened? I was able to find these pages ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch/… opencorporates.com/companies/us_ga/11007056 which says the company is "Status Admin. Dissolved" as of 09/30/2021 There is an agent name mentioned, "Felix Mayer", is anyone in US able to contact this agent and inquiry what happened? People (like me) still have paid licenses which I can't install anymore on new computers... – Bostic

I confirm the LinkedIn profile is the Felix Mayer of object aid, the contact info in LinkedIn mention the website: linkedin.com/in/felix-lj-mayer/overlay/contact-info – Bostic

Sad news, I think the author of ObjectAid was killed in a accident mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/northside_sandy_springs/news/… :-( – Bostic

Answer 1

I've been able to install an old version of ObjectAid. Here is what I did:

1. I downloaded objectaid-1.1.14.zip from ObjectAid on web.archive.org 2019-Jan-13

2. ...OpenJDK 7
3. ...and Eclipse Juno 4.2.2
4. An Eclipse plug-in called Draw2D was also needed.
5. Then I installed only ObjecdAid Class Diagram for which license is not required.

Update

You can also download version 1.2.4 which works with Java 17 and Eclipse 2022-03 (4.23.0) but then you must follow the instructions from this answer to be able to run it.

Ekaterina

your update does not work in Eclipse 2022-03 (4.23.0). Missing requirement: Apache Batik AWT Utilities 1.6.0.v201011041432 (org.apache.batik.ext.awt 1.6.0.v201011041432) requires 'osgi.bundle; – Subclimax

Did you try to follow the instructions from the linked answer? It worked for me. – Ekaterina

Answer 2

This is not really a solution as it would last only until the hosting tear it down, but...

The objectaid.com website is actually still there: it's just the DNS that is gone.

You can open the website adding its old IP to your /etc/hosts file:

208.95.104.30 objectaid.com

The site is fully working, I can login and manage my licenses:

If you have a license, you may try to change it to an offline license with this trick.

P.S. If you didn't see my comments to other questions, the author of ObjectAid, Felix Mayer was sadly killed in a accident https://www.mdjonline.com/neighbor_newspapers/northside_sandy_springs/news/sandy-springs-police-arrest-suspect-accused-of-killing-bicyclist-in-hit-and-run-case/article_ad23098e-889b-11ea-8b6b-c7acd8377384.html, website was left orphan and DNS name expired :-(

Bostic

For those in the EU blocked from viewing the article, here is a snapshot: web.archive.org/web/20200512112452/https://www.mdjonline.com/… – Bernetta

Thank you, any idea why they'd block that ?? – Endive