Merging EA Models

[SwissSteve]

Please can someone confirm my understanding of EA mutliuser concepts.

After reading the documentation it seems to me that EA does not have facilities to merge models and instead relies on locking to overcome the issues.   Is this assumption correct?

I have been given the task of specifying how we should work with EA and one of the requirements was offline working.   I guess I am not the first with this issue.   How do others overcome this problem where users will not have connection to the central server where the master model is stored?

[Eve]

Before I answer anything, have you read the related white papers?  Deployment of Enterprise Architect andVersion Control in Enterprise Architect

Yes, EA relies on locking.  However, EA can merge from baselines (or other XMI files)

As far as offline working.  Anyone who needs to do work offline can get a local copy of the model in an eap file.  Then preferably check-out an packages they want to modify (although an offline checkout does exist.)  Then they can go away, come back, check in changes and update the master model.