Release Notes for EA 7.5

• New: Editions of Enterprise Architect
  • Version 7.5 introduces 3 new editions of Enterprise Architect
  • Two editions target specific engineering domains
  • A third edition wraps up everything for the ultimate Enterprise Architect experience
  • Each edition bundles licenses for specific MDG products that target the needs of the domain engineer
  • Each edition supports advanced Behavioral Modeling and Code Generation
  • New custom dialogs for various behavioral elements to provide enhanced behavioral modeling capability.
  • Ability to generate source code from behavioral models.
  • Support for code generation from State Machines
  • Support for code generation from Activity Graphs
  • Support for code generation from Sequence Diagrams
• NEW: Enterprise Architect - Business & Software Engineering Edition
  • Targets software engineering, BPEL generation, behavioral code from business rules, integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse, and various frameworks
  • Includes all functionality in the Enterprise Architect Corporate Edition
  • Examples included in the Example model
  • Advanced Behavioral Modeling and Code Generation for standard coding languages
  • Business Rules Modeling and Code Generation
    • Support for Fact models
    • Support for Rule Flow models
    • New Rule Composer supports modeling and configuration of complex Business Rules from Fact and Rule Flow models
    • Support for behavioral code generation from modeled Rule Sets
  • Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Support
    • Support for generating BPEL 1.1 from BPMN 1.1 models.
    • Introduced BPMN 1.1 Technology and BPEL diagram type
    • New property dialogs for BPMN 1.1 elements when placed on BPEL diagrams.
  • Support for additional advanced Math functions in the Enterprise Architect Scripting engine
  • MDG Technologies and Add-in licenses included (bundled) with the Business Engineering Edition
    • MDG Link/Integration for Microsoft Visual Studio
    • MDG Link/Integration for Eclipse
    • MDG Technology for Zachman Framework
    • MDG Technology for TOGAF
    • MDG Technology for DODAF/MODAF
• NEW: Enterprise Architect - Systems Engineering Edition
  • Targets systems, real-time engineering, behavioral code generation, executable UML
  • Includes all functionality in the Enterprise Architect Corporate Edition
  • Examples included in the Example model
  • Advanced Behavioral Modeling and Code Generation for HDL's, Ada and standard coding languages
  • Ada 2005 Language Support
    • Added Ada 2005 language support
  • Support for OMG SysML 1.1
  • Support for SysML Parametrics Simulation
  • Hardware Descriptions Languages Support
    • SystemC support added
    • VHDL support added
    • Verilog support added
  • Support for additional advanced Math functions in the Enterprise Architect Scripting engine
  • MDG Technologies and Add-in licenses included (bundled) with the Systems Engineering Edition
    • MDG Technology for SysML
    • MDG Link/Integration for Microsoft Visual Studio
    • MDG Link/Integration for Eclipse
    • MDG Technology for DDS
    • MDG Technology for DODAF/MODAF
• NEW: Enterprise Architect - Ultimate Edition
  • Combines all the features in the Business Engineering and Systems Engineering Editions
• New: 'built-in' MDG Technologies
  • Introduced MDG Technology for Strategic Modeling - including
    • Strategy Maps,
    • Balanced Scorecards,
    • Value Chains,
    • Flow Charts,
    • Decision Trees and
    • Organization Charts.
  • New MDG Technology for ArchiMate, which supports The Open Group's ArchiMate enterprise architecture standard.
  • New MDG Technology for SPEM, which supports version 2.0 of the OMG's Software Process Engineering Metamodel standard.
  • New MDG Technology for Business Rule Modeling. Supports modeling Business Rules in Enterprise Architect Business Engineering Edition
  • Web Modeling UML Profile now incorporated as a built-in MDG technology.
• New: Scripting support (Corporate Edition and above)
  • Write scripts inside Enterprise Architect using either VBScript, JScript or Javascript.
  • Full and immediate access to the Enterprise Architect automation object model
  • Built in Repository object to facilitate instant scripting
  • Built in Intellisense support for the Enterprise Architect Object Model
  • Built in Intellisense support for the major scripting language constructs on a per language basis
  • Advanced math functions are also supported in the Business and Systems Engineering versions of EA
  • Save scripts directly into the current model.
  • Save scripts to a local file, for use in all models.
  • Support for a "Scripts" subdirectory in the Enterprise Architect installation directory.
  • Support for Scripts embedded in MDG Technology files.
  • Ability to export scripts as reference data.
  • Default Session objects for printing out trace information
  • Console window for executing script commands in "immediate" mode
• New: Diagram Layout Window
  • Added new dockable window with 10 new layout styles.
  • Can help with manual layout, or automatically layout diagrams.
  • Each command includes configuration options, allowing you to customize the results.
  • Added new lateral connector style.
  • Added logic to automatically switch between horizontal and vertical tree style connectors.
• New and Improved WAN and Large Model Support (Corporate Edition and above)
  • Lazy Loading
    • Only implemented for DBMS connections (not for .EAP files)
    • Can greatly minimize the time taken to load large models and/or models accessed over a network with low bandwidth (eg. WAN).
    • Lazy Load capability defers loading of model packages until required by the client.
    • Is configurable on a per-connection basis, so two connections to the same DBMS can be configured with and without Lazy Load
    • Can be used in conjunction with the WAN Optimizer
  • WAN Optimizer
    • Lightweight server that can be installed on a LAN connection to the host DBMS
    • Accessible by WAN based clients over socket connection (eg. when client is on a WAN based VPN connection)
    • Acts as a local proxy to retrieve data and compress data for transmission to client
    • Significantly improves performance by reducing the amount of data transmitted and the number of network calls made
• New and improved Themes support
  • Added new visual themes (UI appearance) to choose from.
  • Modified all docked windows to support and use the current theme.
  • Configurable status bar
  • New status bar indicator "WAN" - active when the WAN Optimizer is enabled
  • New diagram zoom control in status bar
    • Allows for immediate configuration of a general "all diagram" zoom level.
    • Independent of the per diagram "zoom level" set by the diagram toolbar.
    • Ideal for viewing all diagrams at a higher zoom level on a per user basis.
• General Appearance, Performance and Reliability Improvements
  • Added "slideshow" model view type, which shows all the contained diagrams in order in fullscreen mode.
  • Added command from toolbox item context menu to synchronize the tagged values and constraints of a stereotype.
  • Added Directory custom tagged value type.
  • Added handling of C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 code constructs.
  • Added handling of localized decimal symbol in Estimation factors.
  • Added new functionality to validate the configuration settings for version controlled packages.
  • Added 'Realization' to Create Metaclass dialog in place of 'Realisation'.
  • Added specific warning about opening a read-only .eap file.
  • Added Stereotype column to Element List.
  • Added support for Code Modules in MDG technologies to specify the name of constructors etc.
  • Added support for creating profiled items from 'Create New Element' dialog.
  • Added support for moving required interfaces on sequence diagrams.
  • Added support for search filters on element Defects.
  • Added support for showing details of selected maintenance, project management and testing windows item in Notes Window.
  • Added support for showing generated XMI, XSD and WSDL files in EA's internal editor if an external viewer is not available
  • Added support for stripping GUIDs in tagged-values when importing an XMI 1.1 or XMI 2.1 file with Strip GUID option
  • Added support for using Sparx Keystore (shared keys) when running under Wine or Cross Over Office (Linux/Mac).
  • Added support to move or copy test cases between testing types of an element.
  • Added toolbar to search view, including an option for how to display the notes.
  • Corrected minor project transfer errors.
  • Corrected searches on Oracle that return over 1000 results.
  • Discontinued support for RealTime UML add-in (rolled into Systems Engineering Edition).
  • Fix configuration of model validation whitelists and blacklists.
  • Fix direction setting of quicklink connectors.
  • Fixed issue of missing association notes during XSD Import.
  • Fixed issue when remove Trigger from Transition.
  • Fixed issue where the "aggregation" attribute was set incorrectly on the generated XMI 2.1 for Association connector
  • Fixed transfer of connectors owned state in Package transformation.
  • Improve project transfer to and from Access 2007.
  • Improved auditing performance.
  • Improved baseline comparison of element scenarios.
  • Improved creation of operation returning arrays from transformation templates.
  • Improved current context immediately after dropping an element from the project browser.
  • Improved display of combo boxes listing available searches.
  • Improved display of stereotyped Activity Partitions.
  • Improved drawing and tracking of Ports and Parts with shapescripts when bound to their owning parent
  • Improved drawing of connectors drawn with dashed lines in tree style.
  • Improved drawing of formatted notes to diagram where the selected font contains unicode characters.
  • Improved drawing of long element stereotypes on sequence diagrams.
  • Improved GDI+ metafiles when generating RTF documents
  • Improved general performance in models containing a large number of security locks.
  • Improved highlight of features in diagram when selecting feature in dialog.
  • Improved loading time of the Classifier Dialog in very large models.
  • Improved performance of 'Insert Related Elements' command when a large numbers of elements will be inserted.
  • Improved performance when applying a security lock to a package.
  • Improved performance when moving large numbers of elements on a diagram (in a single step).
  • Improved reliability when using case sensitive MSSQL model
  • Improved resources usage while loading EA and displaying diagrams.
  • Improved Set Element Classifier dialog loading time.
  • Improved snapping of connector line points to perpendicular line segments.
  • Improved synchronization of attributes and methods with tagged values.
  • Improved synchronization of profiled attributes and operations when dropping from the resource tree.
  • Improved version control performance when creating context menus.
  • Improved XMI 2.1 export of types using predefined common types.
  • Introduced an "All Scenarios" option as a target for notes linked to element features.
  • Made type of bool/boolean tagged values in profiles case-insensitive.
  • MDG Technology for ArchiMate: changed shape scripts for interface and collaboration elements.
  • Modified CSV import routine to only allow EA style GUIDS for the GUID field.
  • Modified handling of text elements so that they automatically resize to fit the text being displayed.
  • Modified HTML export to only copy local files to generated location.
  • Modified lists for docked maintenance, project management and testing windows to preserve absolute column widths instead of percentages.
  • Modified state table to only show state elements.
  • Observe element locking with the quicklinker.
  • Prevent a crash that may occur when deleting an element and its children from the search view window
  • Prevent access to "Lock Item" dialog, through Diagram toolbars and menus, for Diagram Objects locked by other users.
  • Prevent an error when using recent MySQL ODBC drivers which do not correctly support alternate images (binary data)
  • Prevent deletion of packages which contain child items checked out to any other user in a version controlled model
  • Project management element resource allocation added to core auditing level.
  • Redirected instant help for BPMN elements.
  • Restored Expand Branch functionality in Project Browser.
  • Updated diagrams after deleting link from Rules and Scenarios window.
  • Updated drawing of artifacts to account for long names.
  • Use transparent icons when generating HTML reports.Improved handling of transforming operations that return an array.
• Automation
  • Added support for Collection.GetByName for the MethodTags collection.
  • Support generating RTF Master Documents via IProject.RunReport.
• Baseline
  • Added ability to compare requirement stability.
• Code Generation
  • Added ability to list over the following properties of elements in code or transform templates.
    • Constraint, Effort, LinkedFile, Metric, Problem, Requirement, Resource, Risk, Scenario, Test
  • Added parsing of Actionscript 3 Vector type.
  • Added parsing of VB.Net functions without parameter lists.
  • Added transform of ExecutionEnvironment, StateMachine and Trigger element types.
• Code & Script Editor Changes
  • All new, intelligent code and scripting editor.
  • Added syntax highlighting to the Initial Code field of the operation behavior dialog.
  • Allowed the appearance of Common Code Editor calltips to be specified in the corresponding configuration files.
  • Autocomplete functionality based on elements and features within the currently open model
  • Automatic indenting for supported languages.
  • Faster loading with support for more languages and larger files
  • Improved brace matching.
  • Improved Javascript engine to better support use of the global Repository as the default scripting object
  • Improved syntax highlighting for a much wider set of languages.
  • Intellisense and autocomplete functionality built in.
  • Intellisense support added for shape scripts, database view element sql and custom search query sql editors.
  • Prevented Code Editor key combinations from opening EA dialogs bound to the same key combination.
• Data Modeling
  • Added support for DDL generation of SQL Server index INCLUDE.
  • Allow for inbuilt editor to view generated DDL.
  • Corrected error importing schema from DB2 that includes table aliases.
  • Corrected middle top label for foreign keys.
  • Corrected reverse engineering of indexes from Oracle ensuring all indexes are imported.
  • Ensured composite indexes imported from PostgreSQL contain all columns.
  • Improved DBView dialog handling of objects not loaded on a diagram.
  • Improved DDL Generation for Foreign Key Constarint Tags for Oracle Databases.
  • Improved DDL Generation for ORACLE INDEX Properties.
  • Improved DDL Generation for Oracle Storage Clauses.
  • Improved DDL Generation for sp_addextendedproperty statement for SQL Server databases.
  • Improved DDL Generation for Storage Clauses for UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY Constraints in Oracle.
  • Improved Drop Sequence Statement generation for PostgreSQL Database.
  • Improved generation of DDL for MySQL data models having circular foreign key references.
  • Improved import of Integer columns from MySQL to display correctly in the Foreign Key dialog.
  • Improved Import of Oracle TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE and TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE datatypes.
  • Improved Import of SQL Server 2008 datatypes.
  • Improved MDA Transformation to allow foreign keys to be NULL.
  • Improved Order of DDL Generation.
  • Improved OWNER Name generation in DDL for PostgreSQL repository.
  • Improved support for table properties in Oracle.
  • Improved Table property dialog box after importing from SQL Server 2008.
  • Prevent editing of Foreign Key connector labels and foreign key direction.
  • Prevent generation of Oracle foreign key names over 30 characters long.
  • Stop error/warning messages about sysproperties tables when importing SQL Server 2008.
  • Support for Geography and Geometry Datatypes for SQL Server 2008.
• Improved debugging/profiling capabilities
  • Added debug control window to manage debugging sessions and windows
  • Allow greater set of operands when constructing state transition constraints
  • Breakpoints now show error messages when failing to bind
  • Create data bound breakpoints which activate on changes to data variables
  • Enable / Disable diagnostic logging function for debug sessions
  • Evaluate global / static variables using the Autos window
  • Modified all debugging windows to allow separate docking to create a detailed debugging environment
  • More stringent matching of source code to binaries during debugging
  • Package scripts for selected class or package can be accessed directly using the Debugger Control Window.
  • Record/Create sequence diagrams for the current stack or history
• Diagram Rendering Engine - New and Improved
  • Added display of compartments provided by SysML and DDS.
  • Added support for setting background colors of non-transparent UI Controls in diagram.
  • All new anti-aliased rendering of diagrams
  • Configurable with 3 different modes
    • Basic : no smoothing
    • Enhanced 1 : inbuilt smoothing
    • Enhanced 2 : smoothing via GDI+ (Not available under WINE)
  • Improved gradient fills of all elements
  • Metafile support for anti-aliased drawing (Not available under WINE and only supported by some client applications, such as MS Word)
  • Numerous enhancements to metafiles and generalized drawing routines
  • Smoothing of all lines and shapes, including shape scripted elements
• General Diagramming Behavior
  • All new "Quick" buttons activated when element selected in diagram
    • Quick access to formatting commands
    • Quick access to common dialogs and commands
    • Quick access to Help for the current element
    • Quick access to Document generation for packages
  • Added new "sweeper" method for moving all elements relative to the mouse position on a diagram.
    • To activate press and hold the ALT key, then click the left mouse button and drag
    • The initial movement will set the type and direction of the "sweeper" control
    • Elements on the active side (or quadrant) of the sweeper will be moved only
  • Added a small red italic "A" indicator to diagram elements which have a defined linked document
  • Changed from single click to double click for timeline element quickbuttons.
  • Ensure packages dropped on a diagram from the project browser are always selectable.
  • Improved drawing of bezier curves with offscreen control points
  • Modified horizontal swimlanes to have a minimum height.
  • Separated a number of options relating to diagram appearance onto a new options page.
• Discussion Forum Improvements
  • Added "Recent Discussion" node to the Model Views window for quick access to discussion topics
  • Improved general usability of forum editor
  • Modified discussion forum to edit posts inside window instead of new dialog.
• Documentation - HTML and RTF
  • Added #CLASSIFIER# to "Object - Body" section of HTML reports.
  • Added #STEREOTYPE# to "Link Line Item" section.
  • Added a "Model Document" (insert element linked document) field to RTF templates under the "External Requirements" section
  • Added Header Row menu item to RTF Document editor.
  • Added menu "Update Styles" to Linked document and RTF Template editors - imports default styles from file "normal.rtf"
  • Added menu item "Insert->Insert RTF File" to Linked document and RTF Template editors.
  • Added new section "Linked Document".
  • Common settings are saved when the generate dialog is closed.
  • Corrected heading level when generating Model Documents.
  • Ensure .rtf extension for all RTF reports.
  • Improved documentation on section Tags in HTML reports.
  • Improved filtering of elements from search in RTF generation.
  • Improved generation of scenarios to legacy RTF generator.
  • Improved inserting of OLE objects to allow for a wider range of objects in RTF.
  • Improved user experience and general RTF bug fixes
  • Internal Requirements are now sorted by name.
  • New RTF fields for Author and Language in the Package section.
  • Resource based Documents now restore options they're saved with when generating.
  • Table headings are now displayed correctly when filtering is used.
  • Viewing RTF documents has Header/Footer on by default.
• Improved Element List and Search Results windows
  • Drag and drop columns to form instant groupings
  • Easier navigation
  • Improved performance and loading times
  • Improved search view and element list to allow arbitrary grouping
• Improved WINE support
  • Improved performance under WINE. Application no longer causes high CPU load while idle.
  • Removed separate WINE build, WINE is now automatically detected by normal version.
• Model Views, Searches and Element List
  • Added capability for model/search views automatic refreshing and notifying when new items are added.
    • See model views folder properties dialog.
    • With custom queries and integrated security supports implementation of flexible workflow procedures
  • Added hot keys to launch model view as element list (report style list)
  • Added option to set double click as "Open Search in Main Window" or "Refresh Folder Contents"
  • Custom searches returning ad hoc columns now show a best-fit column width based on column content
  • Column layout and grouping is now preserved for all search types between sessions
  • Modified the drop list of Searches (eg. in the Manage Searches dialog) to categorize searches by type
  • Printing the report view now takes landscape orientation into account
  • Search entry on the "Start Page" changed to use Extended, rather than Simple search
• Modeling Changes
  • Added new behavioral modeling property tabs for various behavioral elements.
  • Added new type "Packaging Component". This allows for creation of components that can contain packages.
  • Added support for activity partitions, and other elements selected by the user to dock to each other.
  • Added support for composite interfaces.
  • Added support for connectors between attributes and operations. (Link objects then specify the linked features.)
  • Added support for Device elements owning ExecutionEnvironment elements.
  • Changed display of derived attributes so that the '/' is drawn immediately before the name.
  • Changed display of interface elements to not use italic font, in accordance with UML 2.1 specification.
  • Extended list of element types for which status colors can be displayed.
  • Improved attribute/association end comparison in model validation.
  • Improved handling of language-specific visibilities in model validation.
  • Improved syntax checking for interrupt flows.
• MDG Technology Enhancements
  • Ability to define custom Project Browser icons for stereotypes in a technology.
  • Ability to disable the "Basic UML 2 Technology" and to hide EA's built-in toolboxes, diagrams and quicklinks for a fully customizable experience.
  • Added support for defining toolbox items for UML Patterns.
  • Added support for including Scripts in Technologies
  • Added support for specifying default swimlanes and diagram properties for custom diagram types.
  • Allow tree-style connectors to be defined in UML Profiles.
  • MDG Technology for BPMN upgraded to support BPMN 1.1.
• Printing
  • Enable setting margins to diagram print/print preview.
  • Improved "scale to 1 page" capability
  • Improved handling of page size after changing printer.
  • Improved printing of diagram frames.
• Project Security (Corporate Edition and above)
  • Added ability to import user ids for security from Windows Active Directory.
  • Added check for export permission for Batch XMI Export.
• Rich text based notes
  • Notes editor now appears with an isolating grey border and small margin to increase readability
  • Applies to all instances of the notes editor
  • Docked notes, element properties, diagram properties & etc.
  • Rich text notes have also been added to many more fields, including (but not limited to):
    • Additional testing fields
    • Maintenance fields
    • Project management fields
• Shape Scripts
  • Added diagram.connectornotation property for connector shape scripts.
  • Added shape script attribute dockable.
  • Added shape script attribute fixedAspectRatio.
  • Added shape script property "diagram.mdgtype" for identifying custom diagrams.
• Slideshow Capability
  • For presentations and demonstrations based on model diagrams
  • Play a Model View "slideshow" either at a set pace, or manually - slide by slide
  • Slideshows play in full-screen mode
  • Support for defining a Model View as a "slideshow"
• User Interface
  • Added a "Set Font" button on the format toolbar
  • Added a menu option to find a CallOperationAction's operation in the project tree.
  • Added a menu option to find a Port or Part's classifier in the project tree.
  • Added a new button to the UML Elements toolbar - provides a menu driven drop list of all available elements and connectors
  • Added Text, Hyperlink, Diagram Legend and Diagram Notes to the Common toolbox.
  • Baseline comparison now only shows changed elements by default.
  • Code page enumeration errors are no longer reported to the System Output bar.
  • Enabled execution of user specified "Tools", when no model is loaded.
  • Expand User Interface toolbox to include all UI control subtypes.
  • Extended search term string entry capacity.
  • Fixed display of tagged values in element compartments on diagrams under MySQL (applies to very long values only))
  • Improved behavior of relationship matrix when using settings based on a profile.
  • Improved handling of cursor when showing context menu for diagram.
  • Improved handling of regional formatting in the Time Allocated field of the Docked Resources Window.
  • Improved keyboard navigation around the CSV Specification dialog.
  • Improved list of code languages available to import when languages in database are disabled.
  • Improved Project Browser multiselect under Vista
  • Modified hyperlink properties dialog to allow selection of the different types of hyperlinks that are available.
  • Modified options dialog to show the help for the currently open page
  • Modified Project Transfer dialog to allow reading full values of source and target project fields.
  • Modified use case resize to provide visual feedback of the actual size.
  • Option "No warning for spaces in class names" extended to attribute and operation names.
  • Prevent "Drop as Port or Part" dialog from popping up when dropping a class onto a partition.
  • Removed display of database version in connection name and type dialog.
• Version Control
  • Fixed issue where importing operation tags whose value contained more than 255 characters caused database errors during an XMI 2.1 import.
  • Improved listing of sub-folder content using Get Package function with Perforce.
  • Improved 'undo check-out' of TFS controlled packages, following offline check-out.
  • Improved version control functionality for packages with version control configurations that are undefined.
  • Modified version control to honor last-known package statuses, when EA cannot communicate with version control provider.
• Visual Execution Analyzer
  • Addressed infrequent issue of activation levels being drawn incorrectly in generated sequence diagrams
  • Debugging of Microsoft .NET managed C++ projects had issue with losss of stack frames and missing class names which has been resolved.
  • Failures attaching to processes under Windows Vista have been addressed.
• XSD & XMI import/export
  • Added support for importing UseCase "include" and "extend" connectors from StarUML exported XMI.
  • Added support for importing a top-level element, that does not have a "type" attribute or inline definition, as an XSDtopLevelElement.
  • Corrected export of Interaction Fragment type to XMI 2.1.
  • Corrected export of parent package GUIDs to XMI 1.1.
  • Fixed issue where label co-ordinates may not be round-tripped correctly using XMI.
  • Fixed issue where modelGroup was sometimes generated after XSDattributes in an XSDcomplexType class.
  • Fixed issue where namespace-prefixes were incorrectly generated in XML Schema.
  • Improved export of ActivityPartitions and its contents to XMI 2.1.
  • Improved import of notes on elements when importing from Rose exported XMI 1.1 and EMX file.