You must deploy a profile before you can apply it to a model.
Before you begin
Compressing custom UML profiles Each
time you save a profile, a new version of the profile is created. If you compress
a profile, you delete all the non-released versions, except for the most recent
version, which can significantly decrease the size and improve the performance
of the project.
Releasing custom UML profiles Releasing a custom UML profile
ensures that you cannot make changes to a profile that adversely affect
models that have the released profile. You cannot delete or rename
the stereotypes, stereotype attributes, classes, enumerations, or
metaclass extensions of a released profile. You can only make changes
that are compatible with the released version of the profile.
Localizing custom UML profiles If
you need to translate the display names of your profile to different natural
languages, you can generate a file that lists the display names of the stereotypes,
attributes, constraints, enumerations, and classes in your profile. The generated
file has .properties as its file name extension.