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by jason.powell
04 Jan 2017, 10:49
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: New Slot to a Class Not Displayed in Import Utility
Replies: 2
Views: 2887

Re: New Slot to a Class Not Displayed in Import Utility

Hi, in order to be able to access any meta-model changes in the Import Utility, you will need to refresh the Target Environment that is current being used as the "Reference" for the list of classes and slots when defining Import Specifications. The easiest way to do this is to do the follo...
by jason.powell
16 Aug 2013, 11:31
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Installing in multi-user virtual environment
Replies: 1
Views: 3692

Re: Installing in multi-user virtual environment

Hi Ian, we have successfully installed Essential software in VM Windows environments a number of times. Please note however, that we do not provide the installation as an "msi" that is often used for zero-management clients. There may also be security policies (e.g. access rights) specific...
by jason.powell
26 Aug 2012, 10:38
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Capturing Organization Policy and Compliance - ECP-2
Replies: 7
Views: 90982

Re: Capturing Organization Policy and Compliance - ECP-2

Peter,

the use of real-world use cases is something that we always prefer when defining requirements for extensions to the meta-model and so we would welcome a discussion on the forum of the nature that you describe.

We look forward to your future postings on this subject.

Jason
by jason.powell
13 Jun 2012, 18:39
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Reference Model
Replies: 4
Views: 5276

Re: Business Reference Model

Hi, in order to view the Business Reference Model, you will need to ensure that you explicitly capture a 'root' Business Capability in the repository. More specifically, if you haven't done so already, you should create a single highest level Business Capability and make it the parent of the capabil...
by jason.powell
20 Sep 2011, 09:29
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: technology product build question
Replies: 23
Views: 14922

Re: technology product build question

Firstly, from what we can see from your original post, your approach makes sense. When looking to map Technology Instances back to Technology Providers (i.e. Technology Products or Technology Product Builds), "Instance of Technology Provider" is indeed the correct field to populate. With r...
by jason.powell
02 Aug 2011, 09:16
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Migrating repository from SPARX tool to Essential backend
Replies: 9
Views: 8488

Re: Migrating repository from SPARX tool to Essential backend

Hi, as per your request, I was looking into describing the XSL to capture the associations when I noticed that some of the relationships represent containment (e.g. Market Metrics contains Market Metrics Interface). As I have not seen the original model in Sparx, I just wanted to check whether the m...
by jason.powell
02 Aug 2011, 08:53
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: multi user security
Replies: 1
Views: 3048

Re: multi user security

Hi Tim, apologies for the delay in getting back to you. In short, Protege does not currently support fine-grained user/role-based access control (see Jonathan's post here for a more detailed explanation). However, we are looking into alternative options to support this kind of approach using Essenti...
by jason.powell
22 Jul 2011, 08:49
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Migrating repository from SPARX tool to Essential backend
Replies: 9
Views: 8488

Re: Migrating repository from SPARX tool to Essential backend

Hi, I believe that the challenge is that in UML and consequently XMI, a "Class" could be describing any type of EA element (e.g. an Application Service, a Data Object, a Technology Product). Therefore, when importing XMI from Sparx, one has to do one of the following: Explicitly define the...
by jason.powell
23 Feb 2011, 14:59
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Doing some reporting
Replies: 6
Views: 5318

Re: Doing some reporting

Hi Ana, We are pleased to see that you are looking to re-use the existing classes and relationships. As Jonathan mentioned, extending the base meta-model will enable you to take advantage of extensions, both from the Essential Project Team as well as other members of the community. Having said that,...
by jason.powell
20 Jul 2010, 09:23
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: ECP-7 Business Objectives for Actors
Replies: 3
Views: 54774

Re: ECP-7 Business Objectives for Actors

I think the ability for Actors to explicitly share objectives is also needed. Is there also a need to be able to classify objectives in a user-definable way (i.e. not just by domain) so that they can be managed if they get too numerous?

Jason
by jason.powell
08 Jun 2009, 10:28
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Capturing Licensing Models - ECP-1
Replies: 12
Views: 141060

Re: Capturing Licensing Models - ECP-1

Looks good to me Jon.

I have been involved in a number of commercial negotiations for both products and services with a wide variety of licensing models and I believe that the model you have handles all of the use cases that I have encountered.

Great stuff :) .

Jason
by jason.powell
29 May 2009, 11:45
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Business Process Modelling
Replies: 2
Views: 42668

Re: Business Process Modelling

At this moment, the Essential Project does not support BPMN, but you are certainly not the first Essential Project Member to ask about this capability (see BPMN Support Post ). The good news is that we are actively investigating the possibility of providing support for XPDL which should allow for ex...
by jason.powell
26 Apr 2009, 00:05
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Complete sampel .pprrj available ?
Replies: 11
Views: 8812

Re: Complete sampel .pprrj available ?

The first release of the sample Essential Project repository is now available and can be downloaded from the Share area of the main site.

Jason
(Essential Project Team)
by jason.powell
26 Apr 2009, 00:02
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Essential Sample Repository
Replies: 8
Views: 11700

Re: Essential Sample Repository

The first release of the sample Essential Project repository is now available and can be downloaded from the Share area of the main site. As mentioned in the Essential Team Blog , this initial version was always intended to be a thin slice through the layers (and views) of an enterprise and so pleas...
by jason.powell
19 Apr 2009, 19:05
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Complete sampel .pprrj available ?
Replies: 11
Views: 8812

Re: Complete sampel .pprrj available ?

Apologies for the delay. We are targeting Friday 24th April to make the first release of the sample repository available. As mentioned before, this initial release will only provide a thin slice through the layers and views of a fictional organisation. The focus for this initial version is to demons...
by jason.powell
12 Apr 2009, 12:40
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Information Model
Replies: 4
Views: 4240

Re: Information Model

I used a drawing tool to create the graphic (I guess I miss out on the bonus points), however, it is possible to create views of a similar nature in more dynamic ways. One option, is to use a plug-in that comes with Protege called Jambalaya (enabled by selecting it in the 'Project | Configuration..'...
by jason.powell
12 Apr 2009, 11:52
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Integration Server
Replies: 14
Views: 10598

Re: Integration Server

Dan, at this time, we don't have a date set for the release of the Integration Server, but it is one of our high priority activities. As soon as it is ready for community testing, we will post a notification on the forum. Regarding your being able to import logical and physical configurations, the k...
by jason.powell
08 Apr 2009, 00:02
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Information Model
Replies: 4
Views: 4240

Re: Information Model

Jim, based on the description you provided, here is an illustration (using Roster as an example) of the approach we would recommend for capturing information about your Web Services and the information concepts that they expose. http://www.essentialproject.org/images/stories/essential/forum_posts/we...
by jason.powell
06 Apr 2009, 15:10
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Where does licence goes
Replies: 7
Views: 6356

Re: Where does licence goes

Thanks Gioppo. It will be great to see it and share it with the community.

Thanks,

Jason
(Essential Project Team)
by jason.powell
06 Apr 2009, 14:50
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Essential viewer in multiuser configuration
Replies: 3
Views: 3961

Re: Essential viewer in multiuser configuration

In Protege, click on the Project | Configure… menu item to view the full list of additional tabs that are available. Place a tick in the box next to the “EasTab” entry and then click "OK". If you cannot find this entry in the list, please check that you have correctly installed the essenti...
by jason.powell
26 Mar 2009, 15:51
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Complete sampel .pprrj available ?
Replies: 11
Views: 8812

Re: Complete sampel .pprrj available ?

Hi Kolja, we realise that a sample project would be helpful in the earliest stages of understanding how the meta-model is put together and we hope to make one available within the next couple of weeks (time permitting). As well as publishing the sample project on the main site for general consumptio...
by jason.powell
26 Mar 2009, 12:18
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Information_View bug
Replies: 6
Views: 5864

Re: Information_View bug

Jim, Until this problem is resolved, we believe that you have a couple of options. The first option would be to consider which is more important to you at this particular moment; EAM or the Protege Collaboration Panel? You can still work collaboratively in EAM without the Collaboration Panel - we ha...
by jason.powell
25 Mar 2009, 22:55
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: separating stuff and auth
Replies: 5
Views: 5316

Re: separating stuff and auth

We would agree that if you wish to have a common, shared repository for all customers, then you will need to adopt processes to restrict input of data to the service provider's people. With regard to filtering reports by Customer (along with other attributes), this is indeed supported by the base me...
by jason.powell
25 Mar 2009, 00:59
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: technology product build question
Replies: 23
Views: 14922

Re: technology product build question

Hi Luca, We have created a Protege project containing a simple example of Technology Product Builds and Technology Build Roles . It can be downloaded here . The example demonstrates how two different configurations of Technology Products (Technology Product Builds) are used as a Java Web Application...
by jason.powell
19 Mar 2009, 14:38
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: reporting on inter-layer relationships
Replies: 1
Views: 3318

Re: reporting on inter-layer relationships

Hi Gaurav, When developing reports, the first and most important step is to have a clear understanding of the question or questions that the report should be answering (e.g.  “Which of my applications are being shared across business units?”). Once the questions to be answered are understood, the ne...
by jason.powell
05 Mar 2009, 16:47
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Installation Summary
Replies: 1
Views: 3224

Re: Installation Summary

Steve, Thanks for the great feedback. We particularly appreciate it, as it really does help in the further development of the site content and the tools themselves. To address the questions you raised in your summary: MySQL setup: We did consider packaging a DDL script to create the database needed ...
by jason.powell
05 Mar 2009, 16:31
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Essential Sample Repository
Replies: 8
Views: 11700

Essential Sample Repository

A number of early users of the tools have suggested that a sample repository should be provided as part of the download pack to help with the learning process. This is something that we were always keen to do, but thought that we should get input from the community first. One idea was to take a thin...
by jason.powell
16 Feb 2009, 17:09
Forum: General
Topic: Essential Project Background FAQs
Replies: 0
Views: 38315

Essential Project Background FAQs

Is it really free of charge? Yes, there are no hidden extras or subscription charges. The tool is free to download and use indefinitely. What’s the catch? There is no catch, this is a truly open source product in both monetary and philosophical terms, free to use and free for you to update and shar...
by jason.powell
16 Feb 2009, 17:05
Forum: General
Topic: Essential Project Licensing FAQs
Replies: 0
Views: 37704

Essential Project Licensing FAQs

Could I cause myself or my company a problem with legal compliance if I use your open source software? We have licensed the Essential Project tools under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which means that anyone is free to use it as is, and also to make their own changes to it. If the Essential...
by jason.powell
16 Feb 2009, 17:01
Forum: General
Topic: Essential Project Tools FAQs
Replies: 0
Views: 40817

Essential Project Tools FAQs

Have the tools of the Essential Project been successfully used in a major production environment? The Essential Project tools have evolved over several years to address a variety of client needs. The version we have now launched on the market has been used successfully by major organizations for mo...
by jason.powell
16 Feb 2009, 11:11
Forum: General
Topic: Where to Post What
Replies: 0
Views: 64374

Where to Post What

The forum is here to be the hub of the Essential Project community. This is where users can ask for help, exchange ideas and share experiences and is where most discussions regarding Essential and Enterprise Architecture take place. The boards contained within this forum have been structured into a ...
by jason.powell
13 Feb 2009, 17:35
Forum: General
Topic: Essential Project Forum Rules
Replies: 0
Views: 48352

Essential Project Forum Rules

The following list contains the rules for using and participating in the Essential Project Forum. Please note that failure to abide by these rules may result in editing or deletion of posts as well as removal of registration and bans. Only one account per person is allowed. Please use a valid email ...