About parallel design in EA

[jwb2003]

hi
 I'm a beginner of EA. I want to know how to share the same EA project with several developers? Every developer can edit the same project at the same time and only can edit the package or element that he or she is permitted?  
  Would you please give me some suggestions or references?
  Thx.

[thomaskilian]

You can use an .EAP file (which is an Access DB) over a shared network. Or you can put it on a database repository using ODBC (Oracle, SQL Server and others are supported). There are quite a lot threads about distributed development here on this board. Try to search for them.

[jwb2003]

Thanks

[Jan Pacovsky]

There are many ways how to cooperate.
1) You can use sole .eap file. Most simple way, but everybody can change anything. Users must have online access to this file.
2) You can use database. More difficult to create model in database. But same cons as the 1)
3) You can use .eap file and offline replicas. Great thing if you want to work offline. But again - when two people edit the same package, there might be a problem with synchronization conflicts.
4) You can use above-mentioned deployment types with CVS. In this case you can edit only the package you've checked out.

[Jan ´Bary´ Glas]

Important thing is thah only Corporate edition supports Repositories and Security (locking elements).

[Jan Pacovsky]

Of course. Sorry, forget to mention... Thank you for completion.  

[jwb2003]

Thanks, everyone.
I have succeeded in solving this problem through MS SQL repository and security fuctionaliy of EA.