EA 8 to 9 compatibility?

[meierch]

Is there any information available if EA 8 and 9 are compatible in the sense that both versions can be used on the same repository (e.g. eap file) in parallel?

[Geert Bellekens]

I've played around with it a bit, and I haven't found any issues yet.
Judging from the past it probably won't be a problem, but as usual we don't have any official statement about this.

Geert

[meierch]

Thanks Geert

We have a number of EA installations which we probably cannot upgrade on a single day. Last time this worked without problem ... it would just be nice to have confidence.

Christian

[Eve]

After EA 9 goes out of beta I don't see a problem.  Of course currently EA 9 is not recommended for production environments or models.  So I would recommend against it for now...

[philchudley]

I am happily using all my EA v 8 models with EA v 9.0 beta with no problems

However, there may (and I say may) be a slight issue if BPMN 1.1 modellers wish to upgrade their models to BPMN 2.0 since some of the BPMN 1.1 tagged values have been renamed in BPMN 2.0

I would guess it's just a matter of synchronising the tagged values.

Cheers

Phil

[Eve]

Currently there is no upgrade path from BPMN 1.1 models to BPMN 2.0 models.

We are looking at adding that before the final release.