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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?

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Trayan Momkov
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  • Nobody knows what happened? Its marketplace is available but the website is gone? https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/objectaid-uml-explorer – Mohamed Ennahdi El Idrissi May 30 '22 at 21:12
  • Does anyone has any way to know what happened? I was able to find these pages https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/BusinessSearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=1591528&businessType=Domestic%20Limited%20Liability%20Company&fromSearch=True https://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... – Cristiano Costantini Oct 05 '22 at 14:43
  • I confirm the LinkedIn profile is the Felix Mayer of object aid, the contact info in LinkedIn mention the website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-lj-mayer/overlay/contact-info/ – Cristiano Costantini Oct 05 '22 at 17:54
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    Sad news, I think the author of ObjectAid was 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 :-( – Cristiano Costantini Oct 05 '22 at 20:12

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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

ObjecAid download page on web.archive.org

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

Installing old version of ObjecAid

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.

Trayan Momkov
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  • 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; – Moin Uddin Feb 04 '23 at 15:19
  • Did you try to follow the instructions from the linked answer? It worked for me. – Trayan Momkov Feb 06 '23 at 12:17
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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:

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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 :-(

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    For those in the EU blocked from viewing the article, here is a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20200512112452/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 – Adam Jan 16 '23 at 12:28
  • Thank you, any idea why they'd block that ?? – mi1000 May 16 '23 at 22:48