Corporate Edition and remote users

[Ed]

I’m using the corporate version of EA and I’m using a database as the repository, when a user connects and opens the project is the entire project downloaded to the users desktop?
Or just the parts and pieces they use?
I have a widely geographically dispersed team that is going to use EA and I’m wondering about response time if they have to download the entire project.

Thanks for a great product.

Ed

[thomaskilian]

If your repository is on a database then only those parts are read from the DB which are currently displayed. That would be parts of the project view (maybe EA cashes it once?) and the open diagrams. Nothing will be "downloaded" in any way. However, there have been discussions about performance issues with wide spread access over a network to a central repository. Maybe you should try searching this forum.

[Ed]

Thanks.

[Dave_Bullet]

This advice is in context of the corporate edition running against an RDBMS:

The project hierarchy IS retrieved by the client at project open time.  The more elements you have - the longer it takes (we have about 4,500+ for our corporate repository, and it takes me about 20 seconds to open and I'm a local user).
--> Workaround - don't shutdown and restart EA all the time - leave EA open on your project

There's a bug in EA (which I've logged) where if you are using UML profiles (you can check if you have these loaded in the resources tab) and they have images attached - the images get "downloaded" to the client at project load time.
--> Workaround - don't put images in UML profiles and use shape script instead.

Like most OO applications, EA is a rather "chatty" with the database, so higher bandwidth - and more importantly, lower latency is what is needed for WAN / geogpraphically dispersed users - or small projects / diagrams.

David.