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Project Sharing

Enterprise Architect offers a diverse set of functionality designed specifically for sharing projects in team-based and distributed development environments, through network deployment of model repositories, replication and XMI Import/Export.

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Network Deployment

Network deployment is possible under two different schemas:

•.EAP based repositories or
•DBMS server based repositories

 

DBMS server based repositories offer better:

•Response times than .EAP files on networks, due to the inherent structure of the DBMS
•Solutions when networking problems are encountered, as they have the ability to backtrack transactions caused by external breakdowns

 

Share a Project

Replication

Replication enables data interchange between .EAP based repositories and is suitable for where many different users work independently in parallel development.

Modelers merge their changes into a Design Master only as required; it is recommended that a backup is carried out prior to replication.

Replication cannot be performed on repositories stored on a DBMS server.

 

Replication

XMI Import and Export

XMI Import/Export can be used to export and share discrete packages between developers; XMI enables the export of packages into XML files which can then be imported into any model.

Package control can be used to set up packages for version control and to enable batch export of packages using XMI; Version Control enables a repository to be maintained by a third-party source code control application that is used to control access and record revisions.

 

XMI Import/Export

Version Control

Controlled Packages

Notes

•DBMS Repository support is available with the Corporate, Business and Software Engineering, System Engineering and Ultimate editions of Enterprise Architect

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