Enterprise Architect Version 16.1 Released

Enterprise Architect Version 16.1 Released

 

Build better and build faster with this new release of Sparx Systems' proven modeling and design platform.

 

Featuring a wealth of performance upgrades, customizations, user interface tweaks and new features, the latest version of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect provides the key tools and performance needed to tackle any modeling & design challenge. A major update that ensures you, your team and your customers have access to the best tools and the best experience at all times.

 

Whats new in 16.1?

 

Collaboration

New Chat Search:

• Quickly locate previous chats with a collection of new tools for searching and filtering
• Search your entire chat history
• Focus your view to a specific date range by specifying start and end dates
• See where the conversation came from, and where it was going:

a) All messages for that day of the search result

b) Two or Five charts either side of your search result

 

Discussions:

• Discussion topics, posts and reviews have been enhanced to provide a clean "chat like" interface
• A new dedicated editor has been added when editing and reading discussions
• Sort discussions by most recent activity, keeping the most active discussion at the top
• Keep discussions with no recent activity in front of mind by making them 'Always Visible' by Status

 

Reviews:

• Diagrams can now directly be discussed as part of a review
• See any diagram that has been part of a review in:

  a) The Review & Discussion History and/or

  b) The Manage Reviews windows

 

Custom Documents

Custom Documents have had numerous enhancements to make creating dynamic documents faster and easier.

Quickly build the exact report you or your customers need:

• Drag and Drop model content from anywhere in the Project Browser onto your document
• Apply a built-in or custom template to extract the information you want
• Add your own hand crafted text, images etc.
• Drag and drop more content and add more hand crafted text
• Complete freedom to build, customize and keep your reports and documents up to date
• Fast, effective, flexible and easy

 

Document Generation

• Major improvements to Document Generation performance
• Produce detailed reports in record time
• Performance gains of up to 100%
• Leverage the powerful report capabilities in Enterprise Architect
• Work faster. Get more done!

 

Scalable Vector Graphics

• Model diagrams can now be published in high quality Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) generated from diagrams in Enterprise Architect
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) may be resized for the highest quality printing and publishing needs
• Excellent image quality across different resolutions/sizes
• Easily added to reports, books, specifications & etc.

 

Time Aware Modeling

Time Aware Modeling has been updated to improve and extend cloning of models. In particular, annotation elements such as Notes, Hyperlinks and etc. are now fully cloneable.

• Addition of Annotation Elements as cloneable artifacts
• Inclusion of proxy connector end points
• New Clone Conflict resolution dialog
• New stored information to better track artifact lineages

 

XML Import / Export - 1.1, 2.1, Native, XEA

XMI Import and Export performance has been significantly improved with the release of version 16.1 across all supported XMI formats including XMI 1.1, XMI 2.1, Native XMI and XEA. This can be seen in both Enterprise Architect and the Pro Cloud Server.

• Fine tuned behavior of very large XML/Model imports for improved speed and reliability
• Adjusted memory management during import to reduce overall load
• Custom optimizations to leverage Pro Cloud Server capabilities and improve import speeds
• Performance tuning to improve speed and reliability to Pro Cloud Server over slow networks

 

Load balancing and connection management to Pro Cloud Server

Enhanced load balancing and optimization of communications between Enterprise Architect and Pro Cloud Server.

Version 16.1 of Enterprise Architect includes many changes to improve and manage communication with Pro Cloud Server instances.

• Load balancing and intelligent client throttling ensure optimal individual connectivity while supporting large teams of concurrent modelers
• New strategies to enhance the modeling experience when using Enterprise Architect over high latency (slow) networks
• New approaches to handling error conditions and disruptions
• Restructuring memory usage in Pro Cloud Server and Enterprise Architect to provide less load during high usage scenarios such as XMI model import

 

Pro Cloud Server

• The Pro Cloud Server has seen significant improvements to the OSLC performance
• Improvements to memory management
• Performance updates

 

Code Engineering

Improved Code Engineering/Code Editor to support Java's new versions up to Java 17/18.

Code engineering enhanced to support C# 10's newest features:

• Record Structure
• Global using directive
• New interpolated string format
• File scoped namespace
• Lambda expression:

a) explicit return type;

b) attribute within lambda expression.

 

Customize Preferences and Application Data Storage

Enterprise Architect stores preferences, workspaces, themes and other custom settings and resources in two major locations; the Windows Registry and the Windows "Appdata" directory. These are robust and industry standard methods. However in some cases it is convenient to place this information in a more accessible and more manageable location, usually to allow easier management, duplication, and persistence across platforms.

• When using alternate storage locations for preferences and application data it is now possible to:

• Backup and restore settings with ease
• Set up multiple configurations on the same client PC
• Preconfigure a PC with company approved settings
• Preconfigure a PC with additional themes, workspaces, technologies
• Move settings and preferences between machines

 

• Trainers can:

• Preconfigure their training machines with ease
• Roll back to a base state after a session with minimal effort

 

• Companies and Application Installers can:

• Set up company approved installations
• Pre-install technologies themes/workspaces
• Roll back unwanted or unexpected user changes with ease
• Roll back to a baseline installation
• Set up Enterprise Architect in Secure / Sand-Boxed environments like Docker
• Decouple Enterprise Architect's major settings and persistent application data from the local system/hard drive(s)

 

Other Improvements and Enhancements

• QEA file support enhanced to support compacting
• Improvements to RTFs for
• UPDM Example Model
• SysML block with 4 parts

 

Announcing Enterprise Architect SaaS - Sparx Systems' new Cloud Deployment Solution

Announcing the immediate availability of Enterprise Architect SaaS - our cloud-hosted, on-demand delivery solution for Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect.

 

This simplified deployment solution offers secure, cloud-based hosting for medium to large teams looking to reduce infrastructure costs and deployment time.

 

EA SaaS is easily accessible via a web browser making it possible to work from anywhere on a fast and secure cloud environment.

 

EA SaaS combines -

• Browser based modeling
• Highly secure AWS and Azure technology
• SSO-based user management
• Connect online with attendees
• Stable and scaleable solutions
• Supports distributed modeling and infrastructure
• Fast speeds (5x faster than normal WAN deployment)

 

EA SaaS helps you avoid additional overheads to concentrate more resources on delivering value.