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- 31 Jul 2013, 16:36
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Reference Model Report
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4171
Re: Business Reference Model Report
Absolutely, the ability to customise the views is fundamental to the Essential Viewer. To do this, you update the View template for this view, which is defined using an XSL document contained in the Essential Viewer web application. All the business-related Views can be found in the 'business' folde...
- 31 Jul 2013, 16:32
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process Modelling -PART 1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5462
Re: Business Process Modelling -PART 1
What you have described in terms of how you've modelled this sounds sensible. However, the things you've described as Domains sound to me like coarser-grained business capabilities. A capability can contain sub-capabilities, so you can be as coarse-grain or as fine-grain as you need to be. Remember,...
- 29 Jul 2013, 09:58
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Out of Memory Error
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3928
Re: Out of Memory Error
The memory settings for Protege and for Tomcat are separate. On Windows, you can set Protege by going into the Protege File->Preferences and then into Property Files and then into the LAX properties tab. In there, find the lax.nl.java.option.heap.size.max property and increase this to around 1024MB ...
- 19 Jul 2013, 15:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: "As-Is" and "To-Be" Architecture Modelling
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4639
Re: "As-Is" and "To-Be" Architecture Modelling
Yes. The Strategy Management area of the Essential Meta Model has a construct called 'Architecture State' that you can use to define a particular state of the architecture, with associated time parameters. I would recommend using these to define states that describe particular aspects of the archite...
- 19 Jul 2013, 15:08
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Repository Capacity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4373
Re: Repository Capacity
In theory no. Like any such repository, the system resources of the platform on which you are running it will act as a constraint - both in terms of memory and processor power. However, using 64-bit Java and maximum memory of 2GB and above provides plenty. Within the 2GB RAM config, we have an Essen...
- 19 Jul 2013, 15:00
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: newbie: name doesnt always change - bus cap chain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4474
Re: newbie: name doesnt always change - bus cap chain
Sometimes, the Graph Widget that we use in Protege doesn't keep with these sorts of thing and I appreciate that this drawing error is annoying but you can work around it as follows. You can change the name directly on the object (without opening it's form) and this sets the name in the form, too. If...
- 19 Jul 2013, 14:54
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Assigning values?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4095
Re: Assigning values?
Hi Yasmin, Yes, there is a powerful meta model for defining and capturing the cost values of anything in the model. We found that capturing cost values directly for any particular element in the model (e.g. Business Process or Application Provider) could easily be misleading. Therefore, we have prov...
- 19 Jul 2013, 14:44
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10266
Re: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
Hi Manny, Great to hear that you're making good progress. To capture the Organisation Model, we use Group Actors (for teams/divisions) and Individual Actors for the real people in each team. We can use the Group Actor for things as small as a particular team or as large as the organisation itself - ...
- 19 Jul 2013, 14:08
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Technology Provider Standards Management
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4569
Re: Technology Provider Standards Management
Hi Kevin. The approach you've taken is still supported and you can continue with that. However, we found that there are scenarios where this wasn't clear enough and in particular when we needed to define Lifecycle Models, having the lifecycle status being used to defined standards was overloading th...
- 20 Jun 2013, 21:39
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: import_utility Promote to live error
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3538
Re: import_utility Promote to live error
Please see Neil's post here.
- 13 Jun 2013, 09:25
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege Server Will Not Start
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11227
Re: Protege Server Will Not Start
It shouldn't make a difference but it could be worth trying. This work-around does resolve the ClassNotFoundException during the server binding to RMI Registry. Let me ask a silly question. :) You do have a copy of the protege.jar file in the root of that other HTTP server and the server is running?...
- 13 Jun 2013, 09:20
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Viewer ReportService could not be found at this UR
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6680
Re: Essential Viewer ReportService could not be found at thi
There is no talk-back required. The tab only waits for an HTTP success message from the server. The Out of memory error is likely to be causing the problem. If you're seeing it in the Protege console window, this is in your Protege client. To resolve this, see this documentation from the Protege Wik...
- 12 Jun 2013, 17:10
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Viewer ReportService could not be found at this UR
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6680
Re: Essential Viewer ReportService could not be found at thi
Hi Kirk, I'm going to start with things that you've probably already thought of. ;-) The Essential Viewer environment needs to be running for the Architecture Reporting Tab to be able to send the repository snapshot to it. Make sure that Viewer is running on your local machine (as you're using local...
- 12 Jun 2013, 16:56
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege Server Will Not Start
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11227
Re: Protege Server Will Not Start
Yes, things worked to set up the DB in client mode. Converting the project to a DB project was successful, and the DB was populated - I went in using the DB client to check to see if the tables had anything in them. So, everything is good as far as setting up the database - to my knowledge. Excelle...
- 12 Jun 2013, 16:53
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege Server Will Not Start
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11227
Re: Protege Server Will Not Start
Although there's a database exception in there, which could be at the heart of this, there's a class not found error during the bind to the server. So, let's try the work-around for the Java RMI issue that appeared in Java 1.6.0-29 and see if that works: Protege team posting This Essential forum pos...
- 12 Jun 2013, 16:29
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege Server Will Not Start
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11227
Re: Protege Server Will Not Start
I forgot to mention that I am using SQLfire as my DB I'm not sure SQLfire is supported by Protege. In terms of what is supported, it should be any JDBC-compliant database but we know there are problems with Oracle and DB2. The Protege team run nightly tests against MySQL and PostgreSQL. Start by ru...
- 12 Jun 2013, 16:17
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege Server Will Not Start
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11227
Re: Protege Server Will Not Start
Hi Barry, Unfortunately, the log file has not been attached to your post. You could post the relevant lines from the log files into a reply here - it shouldn't be too big. Things to check for: - You have configured the metaproject correctly and the path to the project file (.PPRJ) is correct. As we ...
- 12 Jun 2013, 15:58
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: DevOps approach to Installation
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4521
Re: DevOps approach to Installation
Hi, I have used an older version of EAM about 2 years ago. Instead of upgrading, I intend to perform a clean installation and proceed from there. I was wondering if someone has a virtual appliance with the full software stack that can be distributed? Ideally, a vagrant setup would be great, possibl...
- 12 Jun 2013, 15:55
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Information Capability
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5687
Re: Information Capability
Great points. These are actually Business Capabilities as ultimately, you would define and use business processes to perform these activities. In terms of being able to group these together (so that we don't lose them amongst the other business capabilities), we can map them to the IT Business Domai...
- 06 Jun 2013, 18:07
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10266
Re: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
Hi Manny, Sounds like some good progress. I'm not sure that we have a Strategic Plan catalogue view in the OOTB set, although it would fairly straightforward to create one based on any of the OOTB catalogues - just that you'd be listing instances of the Strategic_Plan (and it's sub-types) class. Pro...
- 06 Jun 2013, 17:21
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Information Capability
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5687
Re: Information Capability
Hi The metamodel in version 4.0.1 has business_capabilities, application_capabilities and technology_capabilities Just wondering why an Information_Capability class does not exist. Great question. Really the Information Concept provides the Information Layer equivalent of Business Capabilities, Tec...
- 06 Jun 2013, 17:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Web front end to Protege
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7025
Re: Web front end to Protege
This is something that is now on our roadmap. I think we'll take an iterative approach, build up the capability of the web front end as required rather than trying to everything all at once. One of the Team members had a look at Web Protege very recently and this works in a very similar way. It's a ...
- 06 Jun 2013, 17:10
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Forrester Wave
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4281
Re: Forrester Wave
Thanks!
This is great news, indeed!
This is great news, indeed!
- 16 May 2013, 15:39
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10266
Re: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
Hi Manny. Although each View template has different sections (which means that we can't use a single common XSL template to control these), we use the same approach on all of them. A simple tweak to the Views that are being a nuisance can switch the ones that are less important to be OFF by default....
- 16 May 2013, 15:03
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Web front end to Protege
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7025
Re: Web front end to Protege
Thanks for this. Great to hear about how you're using Essential. Just so I get a better picture, how long is the typical project-load-time? Is it comparable when running on a standalone workstation or is the multi-user mode significantly slower? To answer your question, the answer is a qualified 'ye...
- 14 May 2013, 16:59
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10266
Re: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
Hi All, I've had a chance to play around with the suggestions you have said. I am slightly confused as to which sections in the class hierarchy I am supposed to be filling. Do you have a manual or a simple tutorial I can follow to implement the suggestions you made. In theory it all makes sense, bu...
- 14 May 2013, 16:51
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10266
Re: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
Thanks for the detailed reply Jonathan, highly appreciated. Could you please provide me with any documentation or a link to the JavaScript widget to create this custom view? Kind Regards Manny I think the main ones to look at would be JVectorMap: http://jvectormap.owl-hollow.net and also InfoVis: h...
- 07 May 2013, 17:54
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: graphviz syntax error on business process
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4348
Re: graphviz syntax error on business process
If you've installed GraphViz to the default location (just run the installer), you should not have to modify the GRAPHVIZ_DOT env variable. However, this could be a problem with your Process models. Have you got a "Start" node on the diagram for the Process Flow, connected to the first ste...
- 07 May 2013, 17:49
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: Essential Baseline Project for v4.0.1
- Replies: 1
- Views: 64840
Re: Essential Baseline Project for v4.0.1
Thanks for your efforts, Hunter
There's a Version 4 demo repository (upgraded demo 3.5 with some fixes) available to download from our share area.
Jonathan
There's a Version 4 demo repository (upgraded demo 3.5 with some fixes) available to download from our share area.
Jonathan
- 07 May 2013, 17:40
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Error in Business Performance Model View
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5953
Re: Error in Business Performance Model View
Yes, we're about to release another minor version that hopefully has picked up all of these!
Do let us know if you find any more!
Jonathan
Do let us know if you find any more!
Jonathan
- 07 May 2013, 17:39
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Context and Rules in Information Views
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4127
Re: Context and Rules in Information Views
On your first question, I think I would create a new Information View called "Customer Preferred Address" and map it to the relevant Customer and Address Data Objects (which will be related as Data Attribute types in the Customer object). In terms of where the contextual information about ...
- 07 May 2013, 17:18
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10266
Re: How can I model Nodes to a Project?
Hi Manny, Great question. The idea is that we define WHAT is going to be changed in the architecture using the Strategic Plans and it's against these Plans that the planning action - such as you mention (decommission) - are defined. In the definition of the Strategic Plan (which can be as fine-grain...
- 30 Apr 2013, 22:16
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Viewing sample reports in Essential 3.0.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12886
Re: Viewing sample reports in Essential 3.0.4
We've just released a new version of the sample repository that is configured to support Essential Viewer 4.0 It's a bit light on content in the technology layer than we'd like at this stage but does drive a lot of the Views and shows the approach and patterns for modelling in Protege. More to come ...
- 30 Apr 2013, 22:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Sample Repository
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12427
Re: Essential Sample Repository
A quick update on this thread. A new version of the sample repository that is configured for Essential Viewer 4 is now available to download from the Share area . It is bit light in the technology end, still but it provides some good examples of how to model and how some of the Views look. More to c...
- 29 Apr 2013, 11:11
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Error in Essential Viewer
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10206
Re: Error in Essential Viewer
Can you confirm a couple of details, please? You mention that you're using demo 3.5, which version of the Essential Viewer are you using? Have you downloaded version 4.0.1 NOTE: This is NOT related to the version of Protege (3.4.8) that you have quoted. Also, could you confirm which view you are try...
- 29 Apr 2013, 11:06
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Error in Business Performance Model View
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5953
Re: Error in Business Performance Model View
Thanks for this.
Looks like a simple typo in the header of the XSL of the view template.
We'll get this sorted out
Jonathan
Looks like a simple typo in the header of the XSL of the view template.
We'll get this sorted out
Jonathan
- 29 Apr 2013, 11:04
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Modeling functions in essential project
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4903
Re: Modeling functions in essential project
Although there is some visual modelling within the Protege environment, we take a different - knowledge-based - approach in the Essential project. We are notation independent and most of the modelling is about using simple forms to define the elements of your architecture and then related them to ea...
- 19 Apr 2013, 13:43
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: EMM 3 to 4 Upgrade - Essential Viewer issue
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5922
Re: EMM 3 to 4 Upgrade - Essential Viewer issue
Let me add a couple more things to this. It's important that when the installer asks you for the location for the Viewer and the Import Utility that you specify the path to and including webapps folder (if you're using Tomcat). Other Java App Servers don't deploy WARs to a folder with this name, so ...
- 30 Mar 2013, 14:18
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Exporting Models to PDF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7293
Re: Exporting Models to PDF
Good point - and SVG through PlantUML is what we will be moving to. When we released the current UML views, I think we were having some issues with PlantUML rendering SVG. The other issue is that although all modern browsers now support SVG (including Internet Explorer at last) we still have many re...
- 28 Mar 2013, 23:20
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Exporting Models to PDF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7293
Re: Exporting Models to PDF
Hi, The PDF button on this view renders the contents of the table underneath the graphical view to a PDF document. This table shows the business services that each part of the organisation produce. The graphical view at the top of the page is designed to be interactive rather than something to print...
- 27 Mar 2013, 10:40
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Viewer Manuals
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4052
Re: Viewer Manuals
We've released a new version of Essential Viewer that will resolve these issues.
The new version is available in the updated 'essentialinstall4.jar' installer. Download and run this new installer, selecting only the Essential Viewer component.
Jonathan
The new version is available in the updated 'essentialinstall4.jar' installer. Download and run this new installer, selecting only the Essential Viewer component.
Jonathan
- 27 Mar 2013, 10:40
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Error in Essential Viewer
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10206
Re: Error in Essential Viewer
Hi Tham,
We've released a new version of Essential Viewer that will resolve these issues.
The new version is available in the updated 'essentialinstall4.jar' installer. Download and run this new installer, selecting only the Essential Viewer component.
Jonathan
We've released a new version of Essential Viewer that will resolve these issues.
The new version is available in the updated 'essentialinstall4.jar' installer. Download and run this new installer, selecting only the Essential Viewer component.
Jonathan
- 26 Mar 2013, 16:29
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Error in Essential Viewer
- Replies: 10
- Views: 10206
Re: Error in Essential Viewer
From the error message, it seems you are publishing the Version 3 demo to a Version 4 installation. This is the same bug as raised here . We are working on a patch release for the Version 4 viewer to resolve the specific error that you are seeing - which is related to a small bug introduced when the...
- 23 Mar 2013, 11:03
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Thanks for Version 4 release
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4369
Re: Thanks for Version 4 release
Thanks Peter!
The upgrade pack (from version 3 repositories to version 4) and a patch for Viewer 4 should be available very shortly.
Jonathan
The upgrade pack (from version 3 repositories to version 4) and a patch for Viewer 4 should be available very shortly.
Jonathan
- 22 Mar 2013, 16:25
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential 4 Download
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4775
Re: Essential 4 Download
OK, there were 2 broken links on the homepage that are now fixed.
Thanks again
Jonathan
Thanks again
Jonathan
- 22 Mar 2013, 15:53
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential 4 Download
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4775
Re: Essential 4 Download
Thanks for pointing this out.
Ah, I see there's a broken link there. We'll get that sorted - and please do let us know if you find any more!
Jonathan
Ah, I see there's a broken link there. We'll get that sorted - and please do let us know if you find any more!
Jonathan
- 22 Mar 2013, 11:24
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Viewer Manuals
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4052
Re: Viewer Manuals
Thanks for raising this one. The issue is down to a missing statement in some of these related files for the namespace that used for the internationalisation framework. We've checked and actually there are a few files that are affected, so we will resolve this and issue a version 4.0.1 of Essential ...
- 22 Mar 2013, 11:07
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential 4 Download
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4775
Re: Essential 4 Download
Yes.
Judging by the timestamp on this post, the site was still unavailable at this time. I've just made some further adjustments and you should now be able to download essentialinstall4.jar
Jonathan
Judging by the timestamp on this post, the site was still unavailable at this time. I've just made some further adjustments and you should now be able to download essentialinstall4.jar
Jonathan
- 22 Mar 2013, 11:01
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Home Page Down Today
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3166
Re: Home Page Down Today
Apologies for this. We had to take the site down for security reasons.
Please see the note on the homepage - all is back now. However, please do let us know if you find any broken links or similar.
Jonathan
Please see the note on the homepage - all is back now. However, please do let us know if you find any broken links or similar.
Jonathan
- 19 Mar 2013, 13:13
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Import Utility login?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6043
Re: Import Utility login?
Thanks for posting.
The how to install tutorial covers this but the default details are:
user: [email protected]
password: admin
You can then go into the setup of the import utility and define new users and admin accounts.
Jonathan
The how to install tutorial covers this but the default details are:
user: [email protected]
password: admin
You can then go into the setup of the import utility and define new users and admin accounts.
Jonathan
- 17 Mar 2013, 18:27
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Capability Issues xsl file not found
- Replies: 4
- Views: 51575
Re: Business Capability Issues xsl file not found
This view hasn't made it into the current release of the Version 4 Essential Viewer (just as it did not make it into version 3), which is why the menu item was disabled. That it was available to enable is a configuration bug in the Essential 3 baseline repository. Having said that, we'll look into a...
- 17 Mar 2013, 18:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Version 4 and Demo Repository
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4395
Re: Version 4 and Demo Repository
Thanks for this one.
All the demo version 3 has a version 3.5 meta model, it will not work properly with the Version 4 viewer as it has not got the correct viewer configuration.
However, we'll get the version 4 demo repository out in the next few days.
Jonathan
All the demo version 3 has a version 3.5 meta model, it will not work properly with the Version 4 viewer as it has not got the correct viewer configuration.
However, we'll get the version 4 demo repository out in the next few days.
Jonathan
- 17 Mar 2013, 18:14
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: ev3: bad index for RenderBusinessCapabilityColumn
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5372
Re: ev3: bad index for RenderBusinessCapabilityColumn
Thanks for posting this error.
We've just released some updated versions of this and some associated views in the Version 4 release but we'll check whether this is still an issue.
Jonathan
We've just released some updated versions of this and some associated views in the Version 4 release but we'll check whether this is still an issue.
Jonathan
- 17 Mar 2013, 18:12
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
No, leave the Default Architecture State out. There will be no side affects.
On reflection, this architecture state does not really do anything for you - other than cause these sorts of problems and it has been removed from the Essential Meta Model version 4.
Jonathan
On reflection, this architecture state does not really do anything for you - other than cause these sorts of problems and it has been removed from the Essential Meta Model version 4.
Jonathan
- 09 Mar 2013, 18:52
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Component Heat Map View
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9321
Re: Business Component Heat Map View
In the next release, the following Business Component Model views will be available out of the box: Business Objective / Change Footprint. This provides a heatmap on the BCM that compares the footprint of current change activities (i.e. programmes/projects) against the business objectives that have ...
- 09 Mar 2013, 18:24
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Sample Repository
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12427
- 09 Mar 2013, 18:19
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Viewing sample reports in Essential 3.0.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12886
- 09 Mar 2013, 18:15
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Example EA Support Models
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4785
- 08 Mar 2013, 16:00
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
Updated script file now available in the Share area.
Jonathan
Jonathan
- 08 Mar 2013, 14:24
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
As an alternative approach to removing these instances In Protege: 1. Go into Strategy Management and then Architecture State in EA_Support 2. Select the Architecture State called 'Default EA Architecture State' and delete it. 3. Now run the deleteAllInstances() script. It's still worth using step 3...
- 07 Mar 2013, 12:30
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
I've created a new version of the script and done some testing with around 4000 instances. The issue seems to be that the instances we want to delete are mapped to an Architecture State - and if it's the Default Architecture State, that's an instance with links to a very large number of other instan...
- 07 Mar 2013, 10:29
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
Thanks for the feedback and for trying out just deleting a specific number. Very interesting that even if you delete 100 instances Protege is having trouble. I've spent a lot of time, previously, looking at memory management in Python (Jython) and there really is nothing that you can do explicitly -...
- 06 Mar 2013, 13:37
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
I've published an updated version of the script.
You now have to specify the size of the chunk to use, e.g.
deleteAllInstances("Business_Process", 100)
Let me know how you get on - I've just deleted 1350 instances in a second or so.
Jonathan
You now have to specify the size of the chunk to use, e.g.
deleteAllInstances("Business_Process", 100)
Let me know how you get on - I've just deleted 1350 instances in a second or so.
Jonathan
- 06 Mar 2013, 12:44
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
You could push the heap a bit more on 32-bit Windows, to: 1470m (1541406720) but your idea makes more sense.
I'll tweak the script to delete in user-defined chunks, so you can experiment with how many you can remove in one go.
Jonathan
I'll tweak the script to delete in user-defined chunks, so you can experiment with how many you can remove in one go.
Jonathan
- 06 Mar 2013, 12:38
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ECP-10 Management Interest Modelling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 104935
Re: ECP-10 Management Interest Modelling
Thanks for your interest. This ECP isn't going to make Essential Meta Model 4.0 but most likely will start as an optional pack for EMM 3.0.x and 4.0. Does this cover your requirements or is there anything missing in the proposed extension? We still have this ECP open for requirements gathering but p...
- 06 Mar 2013, 12:35
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Viewing sample reports in Essential 3.0.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12886
Re: Viewing sample reports in Essential 3.0.4
Yes, it will be released in the Share area in the Sample Repositories section
Jonathan
Jonathan
- 22 Feb 2013, 18:38
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
I've uploaded a Python script that you can run in the Protege Script Console tab that should help here. I've just tested it with over 3400 Business Processes and all completed in a matter of a few seconds.
Let me know if this helps
Jonathan
Let me know if this helps
Jonathan
- 22 Feb 2013, 18:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11286
Re: Protege - Deleting a large number of instances
Hi, I have seen this but it really depends on which Class of instances that you're deleting. Classes with many inverse-slots (bi-directional relationships) are typically the ones causing problems. As a bit of background, this happens because Protege is having trouble processing all the update events...
- 22 Feb 2013, 17:54
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: windows file.separator in url strings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4489
Re: windows file.separator in url strings
Thanks for resolving this and reporting back. We'll get that resolved and into the next release.
Jonathan
Jonathan
- 18 Feb 2013, 19:06
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Importing architecture Diagrams into essential
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4023
Re: Importing architecture Diagrams into essential
Hi, The idea in Essential Architecture Manager is that you don't ever draw your diagrams - they are generated automatically by the Essential Viewer by querying the contents of the repository. The only 'sort-of' exceptions to this are where we use a simple, notation agnostic, graphical models for thi...
- 18 Feb 2013, 18:51
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: windows file.separator in url strings
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4489
Re: windows file.separator in url strings
We'll take a look at that but we have been using the UML models successfully on Windows for some time.
Is this causing a problem, failure to render the UML models or would you like to report a potential issue / inconsistency?
Thanks
Jonathan
Is this causing a problem, failure to render the UML models or would you like to report a potential issue / inconsistency?
Thanks
Jonathan
- 18 Feb 2013, 18:48
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Information Stores and Relational Databases
- Replies: 3
- Views: 83653
Re: Information Stores and Relational Databases
Good post. In a similar way to how we treat software in the application layer, we hand over to suitable database design tools when it comes to actual table design. These designs (somewhat confusingly called Physical Models by many DBAs and data architects) are detailed implementation designs that fr...
- 18 Feb 2013, 18:27
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Viewing sample reports in Essential 3.0.4
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12886
Re: Viewing sample reports in Essential 3.0.4
We are working on a demo that covers all layers but currently, it lacks enough content in the Technology area.
Would a demo that covers business, some information and application areas be helpful in the meantime?
Jonathan
Would a demo that covers business, some information and application areas be helpful in the meantime?
Jonathan
- 14 Feb 2013, 23:23
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ev3 : global information flow between applications
- Replies: 5
- Views: 120612
Re: ev3 : global information flow between applications
Interesting point. SAML certainly has the technology aspect but maybe that's the 'right' name for an Application Provider that provides the behaviour of serving identities to querying systems using the SAML technology format /protocol. It's usually best to use the names of the Application Providers ...
- 14 Feb 2013, 17:46
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ev3 : global information flow between applications
- Replies: 5
- Views: 120612
Re: ev3 : global information flow between applications
Thanks for posting this!
This view looks excellent.
Jonathan
This view looks excellent.
Jonathan
- 14 Feb 2013, 17:44
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Architectural Building Blocks
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5278
Re: Architectural Building Blocks
Thanks for this. In terms of defining those building blocks, we can define these at two levels of abstraction for technology things and then re-use these to describe the technology platforms for the Application Providers. These two levels are both in the logical layer: - Technology Composite which d...
- 08 Feb 2013, 16:17
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: character encoding in history - fatal error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4653
Re: character encoding in history - fatal error
Thanks for posting back.
Great to hear.
We've got that fixed properly in the next release of Essential Viewer
Great to hear.
We've got that fixed properly in the next release of Essential Viewer
- 06 Feb 2013, 17:38
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: importEssentialInstances.xsl / getEssentialInstanceContains
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3076
Re: importEssentialInstances.xsl / getEssentialInstanceConta
Thanks for this, Jacek Yes, the original idea with this template was to be quite fuzzy about how 'the same' element in two repositories should be identified. However, you have pointed out a very good case where this simply doesn't work. Your suggestions are good to use alternative matching functions...
- 06 Feb 2013, 17:00
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: character encoding in history - fatal error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4653
Re: character encoding in history - fatal error
I forgot to mention that there is a work-around for this bug. What you need to do is tell the Application Server (e.g. Tomcat) to accept UTF-8 in the HTTP GET messages. By default, HTTP GET requests are received encoded in ISO-8859-1, so even though the rest of the application is Unicode-enabled, th...
- 04 Feb 2013, 16:56
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: WebProtégé
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4240
Re: WebProtégé
We've been following the development of Web Protege for the last couple of years for exactly these purposes. When we last checked, however, there were some shortcomings that meant that it was not compatible at the moment. We will continue to track WebProtege, though, and let you if / when it becomes...
- 04 Feb 2013, 16:51
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: character encoding in history - fatal error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4653
Re: character encoding in history - fatal error
Thanks for posting about this. We have also just found and now resolved this in the forthcoming release of the Essential Viewer, which takes an improved approach for the page history - including proper support for UTF-8. The fix updates both the Essential Viewer Engine and the page history rendering...
- 31 Jan 2013, 11:10
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Component Heat Map View
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9321
Re: Business Component Heat Map View
We're aiming for a Q1 release this year and are working on which views will be in that release, out-of-the-box. I can't be more specific than that at the moment about when.
What I will do is find out which business heat map views will be available in that release and get back to you here.
Jonathan
What I will do is find out which business heat map views will be available in that release and get back to you here.
Jonathan
- 30 Jan 2013, 16:38
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8604
Re: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
I've resolved this problem by re-working the transform XSLT file and tested it with the source XML files that you kindly provided. Thanks for raising this bug, as the new transform has resolved a lot of potential issues with processing arbitrary string content from the XML source. All that's require...
- 30 Jan 2013, 16:26
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Group of technology capabilities
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6295
Re: Group of technology capabilities
The inverse slot won't actually help do the recursive query, although it will enable you to query against the next level down. For example, you would build a query that finds all the Technology Capabilities that have the '1.1' capability in the inverse slot (e.g. containing_technology_capability) an...
- 29 Jan 2013, 12:43
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Group of technology capabilities
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6295
Re: Group of technology capabilities
Thanks for your post. I'm going to start with a question: When you say: When I query all components that realise the Capability A (group one), it returns nothing? do you mean within Protege or in Essential Viewer? Normally, this kind of query is something that we include in the Views in Essential Vi...
- 29 Jan 2013, 11:49
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8604
Re: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
Thanks for confirming this. I'm looking at the XSL transform ('importEssentialInstances.xsl') which should be able to resolve this. As some background, the transform dynamically builds Python script, which needs some special treatment for UTF-8 characters. I'll post back as soon as I have some progr...
- 25 Jan 2013, 17:59
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8604
Re: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
I've tried both XML documents and I get the same result in the repository - which is the same as Screenshot 2 I think the answer to this is probably in the 'importEssentialInstances.xsl' transform rather than the tab itself. We'll look into this and get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks very muc...
- 25 Jan 2013, 17:51
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8604
Re: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
Thanks for the update.
I'll take a look at the ZIP file and get back to you about a way forward.
Jonathan
I'll take a look at the ZIP file and get back to you about a way forward.
Jonathan
- 22 Jan 2013, 10:48
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: O3 (Objectives, Outcomes, Outputs) trend report
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5751
Re: O3 (Objectives, Outcomes, Outputs) trend report
Yes, that's what we've been doing. It does mean that there are a lot of these Service Quality Values in the repository but it works well and from a meta model point of view is consistent in terms of using these both for what our objectives and targets might be and also for the actual values that we ...
- 21 Jan 2013, 16:36
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8604
Re: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
Just a quick post to let you know that version 2.0 of the Essential Integration Tab is now available to download from the Share area.
Jonathan
Jonathan
- 21 Jan 2013, 13:04
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ECP-10 Management Interest Modelling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 104935
Re: ECP-10 Management Interest Modelling
Proposed Solution Extend the 'stakeholders' relationship between on all EA_Class elements from a straight relationship to either Business_Role or ACTOR_TO_ROLE_RELATION. The extension will define a new STAKEHOLDER_RELATION class that is connected to the 'stakeholders' slot on EA_Class and to the AC...
- 21 Jan 2013, 12:56
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ECP-10 Management Interest Modelling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 104935
ECP-10 Management Interest Modelling
Requirements The requirement is to provide the ability to capture a model describing the management interest for any element in the repository, e.g. Business Process, Application Provider, Application Service, Product. A common example of the aspects of a Management Interest Model would be RACI, wh...
- 21 Jan 2013, 12:55
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ECP-9 Lifecycle Model
- Replies: 4
- Views: 102529
Re: ECP-9 Lifecycle Model
Complete ECP
We have been testing the implementation of this ECP in the field and believe it is ready for wider use.
This Lifecycle Model extension is planned to be included in the next release of the Essential Meta Model.
We have been testing the implementation of this ECP in the field and believe it is ready for wider use.
This Lifecycle Model extension is planned to be included in the next release of the Essential Meta Model.
- 21 Jan 2013, 00:10
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: No "Essential AM Repository" project in metaproject
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3509
Re: No "Essential AM Repository" project in metaproject
Thanks for the update. We often move the metaproject (which is the Protege project that controls the server configuration) to a more easily maintained location, e.g. alongside our main repository, on Windows, perhaps something like 'D:/EssentialRepository/' However, if you do do this, you need to tw...
- 21 Jan 2013, 00:06
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Cache error after sending snapshot to Report Service
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4974
Re: Cache error after sending snapshot to Report Service
Does Glass Fish work in the same way as Tomcat with a deployed WAR file? That is, the WAR is unpacked as a folder structure. Some background. In version 3, we introduced some cacheing of the XML repository snapshot to improve performance and provide more consistent memory usage. There are also a num...
- 20 Jan 2013, 23:58
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8604
Re: Problem with Polish chars in Essential Integration Tab
Hi Jacek,
We have just finished an updated Essential Integration Tab, that includes a revised integration engine. I will post this in the Share Area tomorrow and hopefully this should sort your UTF-8 character issue
Jonathan
We have just finished an updated Essential Integration Tab, that includes a revised integration engine. I will post this in the Share Area tomorrow and hopefully this should sort your UTF-8 character issue
Jonathan
- 20 Jan 2013, 23:50
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Character encoding in script console
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3899
Re: Character encoding in script console
Neil is correct. There are some particular things that you need to do with Python to make it handle UTF-8 or unicode characters. If you know the unicode characters, you can use the /uNNNN approach to specify the character. e.g. here is the Python code to add some details about a Chinese Language: aN...
- 20 Jan 2013, 23:43
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Batch Data Import Process.... What am I doing wrong??
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10072
Re: Batch Data Import Process.... What am I doing wrong??
Apologies, we ran into some more things that we felt needed to be resolved before we released it. A beta version should available very shortly.
Jonathan
Jonathan
- 20 Jan 2013, 23:42
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential Integration Tab in EAM 3.0.4 not working?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6628
Re: Essential Integration Tab in EAM 3.0.4 not working?
Is the name somehow static or is it possible to change it? Is it maybe possible to map it with an id in an excel sheet? This is the 'internal' repository ID that Protege has generated and as long as it is unique in your spreadsheet, it can be any string value. (This example XML is based on the Esse...
- 20 Jan 2013, 23:32
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential Viewer does not work on Win 7 install
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4764
Re: Essential Viewer does not work on Win 7 install
Thanks for posting this.
Also make sure that if you're running 64-bit Windows to use the 64-bit Java for Windows.
Jonathan
Also make sure that if you're running 64-bit Windows to use the 64-bit Java for Windows.
Jonathan