The second major release of Enterprise Architect this year. EA 9.2 provides the following new features:

Baseline Diagram Comparisons:
A diagram can be compared to a diagram version stored in a baseline. All diagram changes are depicted in the current diagram. A wizard allows you to filter out different diagram changes.

Enhanced Simulation Capabilities:
Triggers can now be used in State Machine simulation. EA supports now also simulation of Business Processes. JavaScript can be used as action language for the simulation.

Debugging with GDB:
GNU Debugger is now used for debugging. It is possible to record sequences and generate Sequence Diagrams.

Specifying Ontologies using ODM:
EA supports now the Ontology Definition Metamodel. Ontologies based on OWL (Web Ontology Language) and RDF (Resource Description Framework) can now be modelled with Enterprise Architect.

Enhanced Modelling for ArcGIS ™:
The ArcGIS MDG Technology is enhanced and provides not import and export features.

The complete list of the release notes may be found here.
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The trial version of EA may be downloaded from here.

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In our model we have a class C with a port P. P has a porttype assigned. So when we drag the class C onto a new diagram, and choose option “as new instance”, EA references the origin with the ClassifierID. The more, EA set’s the columns classifier_guid and PDATA3 in table t_object (Both having the GUID set as value).

If you drag class C onto a component, and choose “as part”, EA sets the PDATA3 field only. This is new to version 9.0, as in version 8.0 EA wrote the referenced Guid into PDATA2 column. But it is still different then adding it as a new instance.

So when changing the porttype on port P, synchronizing the inherited ports porttype is tricky, as – depending on which EA version you work with – PDATA2 OR PDATA3 are set.

And you also should be aware of, that these values are not cleaned up when class C or port P are deleted.

This release sees major updates to Enterprise Architect’s Simulation capability, expanding its functionality to support automated and intelligent model execution, as well as the ability to use JavaScript to evaluate guards and effects. JavaScript support for COM objects within the simulation context has also been added along with a set of “Rapid Start” options helping you to become more productive sooner. Enterprise Architect 9.1 now includes Sparx Systems’ beta UML profile for ArcGIS.

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In my scenario I have a diagram with one class having 2 attributes (att1 & att2). I had to change the visibility of the attributes a couple of times to discover, where the information really goes to: EA stores this information in the diagram’s PDATA column.
The dedicated snippet starts with ‘SPL’.

Full entry was SPL=S_386BE4=CCBA60,3F22F0:;

Now we came so far, what does it mean?
386BE4 is the first 6 chars of the element’s guid
CCBA60 is the first 6 chars of the attribute’s object named att1
3F22F0 is the first 6 chars of the attribute’s object named att2

Everything occuring in this snippet, will not be displayed.

(Link to Part1 is here)

If you want to hide attributes having public scope, this is, what is appended:
AttPub=0;

Please note, that setting the value to ’1′ means the same as removing the entry.

Here are the other scopes: AttPro=0;AttPri=0;AttPkg=0;

If you’re interested in operations: happy investigating!

(Link to Part2 is here)

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Further information can be found here.
Detailed release notes canbe found in the Readme.txt File in the EA installation directory.

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Thanks to:

Juanjo Ramírez Amenedo (http://es.linkedin.com/in/amenedo)

http://www.conocimientoytecnologia.org/