Hi, Below is a link which provides details about RMI enhancements (available from JDK 7 update 21) http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/rmi/enhancements-7.html After upgrade to JRE version 8, I was also facing RMI issues and was not able to load server projects. As mentioned in this...

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you very much for the quick reply.
We will upgrade to Java 8 for now.

Thanks.
Prem

Hi, We need to apply several patch updates on our Essential Architecture server to avoid exposure to attacks. Presently we have Java 7 installed in dev/prod. But looks like updates to Java 5, 6 & 7 are available only to customers who have purchased Java support or having oracle products that req...

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the reply. Yes! The new import utility is really having improved performance and the standard python library is making use of efficient instance finding methods. I also have few other test results and like to hear your suggestions, just to make sure if we are on the right tra...

Hi Jonathan, We used the latest script library and XSL transform for importing XML containing 2848 supplier and 36594 software technology product instances. The XML file initially contains all supplier instances and then nodes for technology products follow. In each technology product node, a refere...

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for providing the latest script library and transform.
After evaluating this, I will sure post back the performance improvements results.

Thanks.
Prem

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you so much for all the details you have provided.
I too noticed that on posting two consecutive requests to import utility, it is processing one by one.
Thanks for the link to the latest interface documentation.

Cheers,
Prem

Hi Jonathan, Thanks again for your suggestions. Regarding usage of map() function, are you suggesting to make use of this instead of traditional for loop to find instances? If that is the case, I actually gave a try with sample code as follows. productToFind = "Xml" nameSlot = kb.getSlot(&...

Hi Jonathan, Thank you so much for the reply. To your question, A question for you: Are you importing the definitions of ALL the products that ServiceNow have defined or just those products that are in use at your organisation? As the first step we tried to populate only software technology products...

Hi Jonathan, Thank you for the quick response. We are actually trying to make use of import utility to sync data from servicenow into EA model. I have initiated a separate post about the issues which we are facing with import utility. Here is the link to that post. https://www.enterprise-architectur...

Hi, The standardFunctions.py script library provides a method namely FindEssentialInstanceByName, that could be used to find specific EA instance of a particular class. But the logic is based on a for loop by getting all direct instances of provided class. If the total number of instances are less, ...

Hi, We are currently in the process of populating EA model with data from service now. To check the performance of import utility, initially we are trying to populate data from Software table to Technology_Product. (For testing purposes, just the name, description and manufacturer). The name of manu...

Hi, Is it possible to interact with protege server project from an external program using RMI? If anybody has done something similar to this please share your suggestions and if possible, please share some code. If this could be achieved, using such an external program, data from other data sources ...

Hi Jonathan, Excel and XML REST APIs both work fine when using latest installation of import utility 1.7.1. Thank you so much for providing this fix. Cheers, Prem Hi Prem, We have just released version 6.0.2 of the Essential Open Source software, which includes changes to address this issue. You can...

Hi Jonathan, I haven't got a chance yet to test the latest import utility REST APIs but will sure have a look on that very soon. Actually we started looking on this REST api because we like to perform a synchronization between ServiceNow and EA meta model. The idea to perform this is as follows. > D...

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you so much for replying.
I am very sorry for my delayed reply and just now got a chance to look on the post.
I will follow your instructions to install latest import utility and confirm you soon if Excel/XML imports work fine.

Cheers,
Prem

Hi, For the purpose of importing external data into EA model, we have done a PoC on consuming import utility rest API through Microsoft C# based standalone application. Here are the version details. Essential import utility 1.6.5 Tomcat 7.0 We have configured Excel and XML import activities to impor...

Hi J.M,

Sorry for the late reply.
Just now I have got a chance to test the files you have posted.
Thanks for your help.
Report works as expected.

Cheers,
Prem

Hi, We are in the process of creating several roadmap models and like to render them using enterprise/core_el_strategic_roadmap2.xsl. We have established essential_viewer using v6 released on April 18, 2017. One of the roadmap models is not rendering properly. When viewing the console of browser, be...

HI Jonathan, Thank you very much for the clear explanation. As you have said, the classes namely Skill and Skill_Certification under Resource_Optimisation had both Resource_Optimisation and Skills_Management as super classes. I cleaned up the classes as you have suggested. Thank you once again for y...

Hi Jonathan, Thank you so much for replying. Couple of months back, we have upgrade from Meta model 4.0 to 5.0.5. We downloaded 4.3.1 to 5.0.5 upgrade pack and performed the upgrade. After this process only, upgrade to v6.0 has been done. For your kind reference, I have attached screen shot about ap...

Hi John, Thank you so much for explaining about the changes. After applying upgrade pack version 6, I also find the concrete classes namely Skill and Skill_Certification under Skill_Management abstract class (Not sure if I have done something wrong). Will the upgrade pack normally take care of the f...

Hi, It looks like essential_basline_v6 project is missing EA_Class -> EA_Support -> Skills_Management If a user performing fresh installation of Essential Architecture and likes to use that empty project as the base for capturing architecture, I think this piece will be missing. Please correct me if...

Hi John,

I upgraded dev environment to version 6.
Now I am able to see core_el_strategic_roadmap2.xsl
I think for now there is no need to drop XSL file.

Thank you for your support.

Cheers,
Prem

Hi John, Thanks for your quick response. As you have suggested, I changed XSL name and getting "java.io.FileNotFoundException". I also checked the folder "webapps\essential_viewer\enterprise" under tomcat installation path. But I didn't find that file. It would be great if that f...

Hi, Recently an upgrade of Essential Architecture Manager has been done in our environment using the latest 5.0.7 release. Now we are trying to build a strategic roadmap. We noticed that the enterprise strategic roadmap report available in essential viewer demo link looks more enhanced than the one ...