For more details about configuring a second Tomcat to host the Import Utility, please see this article: Configure Tomcat for running the Import Utility

Jonathan

Hi Jason, Thanks for posting. I think the first thing to check is that you have enough memory allocated in the Tomcat environment. Neil's blog article describes how to do this and recommends that you run the Import Utility in a separate Tomcat instance from that which the Viewer is using (e.g. runni...

Hi Joseph, When you mentioned the Process Summary Slot, this sounds like a view within Essential Viewer. Is that right? This Process Summary view is being updated for the next release but the current version has a section that can display a screenshot of the process flow definition as you drew it in...

Hi Mark, It's normally best to run on your native platform - it just makes launching it simpler. Neil has posted back on your post about the issues you were having with Mac OS Sierra. Thanks very much for posting that. Some of us are using Protege on Sierra but - importantly, as it turns out - had a...

Hi Joseph, Thanks for posting. I've had a look at the link that you've shared but only found a Visio document and a PDF of (presumably) that Visio document. Could you elaborate some more on the issue you're seeing? If I understand correctly, the graphical rendering of your process renders correctly ...

Hi Joseph, This slot aims to capture something simple about whether or not this is a standard process - e.g. the standard invoicing process - or if it is some custom process to meet specific requirements. It's a simple connection to an Enumeration that you can extend. However, more recently, we have...

Hi, I think Neil's recent post sets out the direction for this View. The diagram you're seeing here is basically a screenshot of what you modelling in Protege that is sent over to the Viewer, but is simply rendered without any further interpretation. A new version of this View is coming soon for the...

Hi, Yes, this advice is certainly still correct. Use the Static Application Architecture models to define the dependencies that exist and then add the information that’s flowing between the applications on the ‘arcs’ of that model to show what’s being consumed from an information perspective. The ty...

Hi, Apologies, I missed this post. Firstly, I note that you'd posted not long after this that you had got things working. Can I assume that you resolve this JDBC driver issue yourself before your last post? In case this is still an issue or anyone else is having a similar problem, there a number of ...

Hello! Firstly, apologies for not replying sooner about this. Depending on what you mean by 'physical', there are two answers to this. Firstly, from a logical perspective - that application A receives information from application B - A depends on B. If B does not supply this information to A, then t...

Hi, Great question. What made the decision for us was that in the Business Physical layer we are talking about actual teams, people, sites and so on. Tangible things. In contrast, the Product class is still a logical description even though it is very specific about that thing. If we make cars, a pa...

Hi, This particular view is driven by instances of Product_Type class. You can scope the view to control which Product_Type instances (Business Service) will be used. For each Business Service, the view queries the consumers (defined by instances of Group_Role and Individual_Role connected in the ta...

Hi Jonathan I have been working in Protege for a ay or so now, and I think I'm slowly getting the hang of it. One thing I've noticed though is that in the Instance Browser for example the Business_Capability list I see 2 odd things; 1. a number duplications e.g.. Economic Research or development Pr...

Hi Jonathan Thanks for that, can you give me an idea of what the training could cost please and can it be done on-line as I live in Perth, Australia and working for a Not for Profit org, residential training is very, very unlikely to be approved. Regards Joseph Hi Joseph, Firstly, the training can ...

Hi Elaine, Thanks for posting. You can reset the password for accessing Protege in client-server mode via the 'meta-project'. Once you've made the changes (e.g. set a new password), you must save the metaproject and restart Protege server. Use the user name and password that you've set in here when ...

Hi Joseph, This article should help introduce the concepts and how you go about creating new views / editing existing ones. Creating New Views and Reports We strongly recommend that if you need to enhance / update an existing View, make a copy of that view template (a .XSL file) and store that copy ...

Hi, I'm going to share a pre-release version of the Import Utility (1.5.13) that I know has been compiled against a more recent Java version and that we've definitely tested against Java 8 and Tomcat 8. You can download the WAR file from here: https://easglobal.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/guestaccess...

Thanks. I think it would be good to try a later version of the Import Utility to see if that might resolve this issue. We are running this web application on a Linux platform using Java 1.8 and Tomcat 8 and have not seen this issue. From what I've read earlier about this particular exception it coul...

Thanks for posting the update. Could you tell us which version of the Import Utility you are using? It should be shown in the 'footer' of the login page. Having looked at the link that you posted, it may be that recent updates will resolve that No SpringWebApplicationInitializer report. Thanks Jonat...

Hi, thanks for posting back. We recently fixed an issue with publishing to Tomcat 8 (things changed in Tomcat!) Could you let me know which version of the publishing tab - Essential Viewer Tab - you are using? If you go to the Help menu in Protege and choose About Plugins and select the Viewer Tab, ...

Hi,

Glad to hear that you've got Viewer running now.

Could you tell us which version of Java you were using at first and which version you switched to? Viewer version 5 now requires Java 1.7+

Jonathan

Glad to hear you got that going. It's an old UML but it works for showing what the classes are and how they relate. Sounds interesting what you've been doing with this - good for sharing and explaining how the meta model is working to a wider audience. How wide is your audience for that kind of meta...

Hi Colin, I have done one reasonably recently but just to check I've done it again now. All worked fine exporting using the File->Export to Format... and then selecting UML 1.4 I was then able to open this in ArgoUML v0.30.2 and drag classes onto a new class diagram. What kind of slot errors are you...

As a bit more background, that particular name is using a gadget called the 'AutoTextWidget' which - as the name suggests - automatically sets the text value according to a defined pattern (which is configurable from widget to widget). The idea is that the name for that model is defined and managed ...

Just to follow up on these good suggestions, we normally have 2GB memory allocated for Protege, 2GB for Tomcat that is running Essential Viewer and 2GB memory allocated for the Tomcat that is running the Essential Import Utility. This way, each of these has its own Java Virtual Machine and any 'heav...

Hi, There's actually this option built into the installer (almost). At the end of the install, you can tick the box to have it create a script the captures what you selected via the GUI-based install. You can then replay this script into the installer program and have it re-perform the install for y...

Thanks very much for letting us know how you got on. Really interesting to hear that you've got this in a Docker. Was it Centos where the installer would not run properly or was it something to do with the Docker approach? We have had users install via the command line and if you any pointers / erro...

Hi, We have used a UML modelling tool (ArgoUML) to produce those diagrams that you refer to but we do not currently have a complete coverage of the entire meta model in UML. A single diagram of all the classes and relationships would be too complex to be of any use. Rather, the approach that we have...

Hi,

Colin is right about how to find the list of stakeholders. These are not listed on the version 4 Application Provider Summary view but are listed in a section called "Roles and People" in the version 5 Application Provider Summary.

Jonathan

Excellent!

Thanks for getting back to us

Jonathan

Hi,

The specific view in question missed version 5. We'll have a look at the options for this kind of view in version 5 and post back with an update

Jonathan

Thanks for your post. Let's start with something really simple on this. Could you try again but with $PROTEGE_HOME set to: export PROTEGE_HOME=root/Protege_3.5 What I'm suggesting is to drop the leading '/' on this PROTEGE_HOME setting as it looks like the installer is adding its own '/' to the star...

Hi,

Just to confirm, have you resolved the issue you were seeing?

Jonathan

Thanks for posting. As you’ve described, this seems to be a variant of the CODEBASE_URL setting issue. I’m going to start with a bit of a silly question. I assume that the CODEBASE_URL that you’ve specified in your run_protege_server.sh does actual point at the copy of protege.jar - that is, you’ve ...

That's great to hear.

Thanks for posting back.

I've updated the documentation to make a mention of the Update Scripts and also updated future upgrade installers to make it a bit clearer about when you should include this package.

Jonathan

Hi Michael, This is part of the installer and it takes care of upgrading the Essential widgets - the plugins for Protege. It is there and included in the installer Are there any more details about the error, other than reporting that path? Is that directory write-able for the installer? Did you have...

Thanks for posting this!

Using a separate JVM (as you are) from that which is included in the Protege distribution is a good idea, too pick up all the latest patches and updates.

Thanks again for sharing.

Jonathan

Hi, Any translations that you've added in the repository / viewer in Spanish should still be there. Go into the repository in Protege, and go to the Class 'Report_Language' (EA_Support / Essential_Viewer / Report_Language) and select Spanish. You will probably see that it is not enabled. Click on th...

Hi, This looks like you are running the update pack in client-server mode. I strongly recommend that you apply the update in an off-line, stand-alone mode. You can still do this on the server but first you should: 1. Stop the Protege server. 2. Open your repository (Protege project file) in Protege ...

Hi, Thanks for your post. The upgrade to version 5 of Essential Viewer also requires that you upgrade your repository to version 5.0.5, as there are a number of new controls for the Viewer included and managed within the repository. Please try upgrading your repository (take a snapshot and test off ...

Hi, Thanks for your post. We agree that Docker looks really interesting and it is something that we’ve been tracking for some time. (Note, that the client components would still need to be installed for some users!) However, currently we don’t have any immediate plans to provide a Docker deployment ...

Hi, Thanks for your post. We have been unable to replicate the first issue that you describe. I’ve just re-downloaded the demo repository and published it to my v5.0.6 Viewer. The homepage etc. all rendered correctly. Please have a look at Tomcat’s main log file (<TOMCAT>/log), ’catalina.out’ (Unix/...

Although these slots have been deprecated, they will remain in the meta model for some time to come and it is safe to continue to use these slots for the current versions of the roadmap models. We plan to replace these roadmap views with improved views that use a more powerful widget for the roadmap...

Hi Tuan, Thanks for your post. We have done some work with clients specifically on maturity of the EA processes. However, this approach evolved into a generic capability to capture performance measurements against any element in the repository. What this means is that you can define a performance me...

Hi,

Can I confirm, is this the error code that you are receiving from Tomcat 8?
Would you be happy to post back any exceptions or error messages reported in the "catalina.out" log file in <TOMCAT 8>/logs?

Jonathan

Hi, Can I just confirm what you mean when you say that the "Essential Class Name" is empty? I'm guessing that when you click on the drop-down the field appears empty. This can be a very long list - over 500 options - so, what we've done is make this control response to typing into that fie...

Hi Sandeep, Thanks very much for posting this. I assume from what you’ve said that this behaviour is different to that which you had with version 4? The publish to Viewer is achieved using HTTP and from what you’ve said it sounds like that is working fine. However, the overall publish process - alth...

Hi Tim, This is definitely possible - Business Processes can be supported by multiple Application Services and each Application Service can support multiple Business Processes. In the Essential Meta Model, we use a relationship class to create this link between the Business Process and the Applicati...

Thanks for posting back on this one.

That's great feedback for us to hear how you have used the Viewer previously and how you deployed version 5. We can factor this into things like improved documentation.

Jonathan

Version 1.5.2 of the Import Utility is included in the Essential Architecture Manager 5.0.6 installer.

You can re-run the installer, selecting only the Import Utility and that will deploy a new WAR file for version 1.5.2.

Jonathan

Hi Tim, Great to hear from you. You can make any changes that you require by enabling the "Classes" tab in Protege. From there you can make new classes and new relationships between those. Before you do, it is worth checking out what is already in the meta model. Precisely what you describ...

Hi Thanks for posting back. There are some views that provide a perspective on this. For example, the 'Business Function / Service Model' provides a list of the Product Types that are delivered by the Enterprise. In addition, the Business Service Interaction Model provides a graphical perspective on...

Thanks for your feedback. I think that the first thing to check is the version and configuration of the repository that you are publishing to the Version 5 viewer. From the screenshots, it looks like the home page is returning no content - a blank page. The version 5 viewer requires a version 5 repo...

Hi. Can you tell us some more about the repository that you are publishing to Viewer? It sounds like this is a version 4 repository. If so, this will not contain all of the required content to configure the version 5 Viewer. There is an upgrade pack that should be applied to any version 4 repository...

Thanks for posting this.

We'll keep you updated on the fix.

Jonathan

I've been through the log files that you posted - thanks very much for those. There are some exceptions in there that were thrown by Tomcat during the deployment of the WAR file. I've just tried re-installing the Import Utility from our installer. However, I installed it to a local folder before cop...

I know it is a bit of a cliche but have you tried restarting Tomcat after deploying / installing the WAR?
It's quite a large file and I've found that restarting the web application server completes the deployment of the application.

Jonathan

Great stuff - really pleased to hear that.

Thanks for confirming that the update fixed the issue.

Do keep us posted with how you get on with Version 5!

Jonathan

Hi Keith, It sounds like you are doing the right thing. I've just tried it (to confirm) and have got the expected output. To confirm, I went to the Report Constant class and selected the Instance: 'Org Model - Root Organisation'. In the Associated Instances slot, I pushed the + button and selected a...

Hi Susan, Thanks for posting your query. The relationship between a Product Feature and a Business Capability is indeed indirect. A Product Feature is related to a Product Type, which in turn can be connected to the Business Process that delivers the Product Type. At this point, you have a choice. W...

Thanks, that's perfect. We've identified a bug in the XML rendering package. A new version of the Essential software is now available for you to download. The fix impacts: Viewer Tab in Protege Snapshot Tab in Protege Essential Import Utility Unless you are installing to a fresh environment, you sho...

Hi, Thanks for posting. This could well be a Java version issue but I think it would be worth looking into the error message a bit more. Could you post more details of the exception message / stack to see where this error is being thrown? Getting the JVMs to a roughly compatible level makes a lot of...

Thanks for updating us.

Certainly restarting those Tomcat instances will make sure that no old versions are being cached. A reboot makes certain that everything is starting from a known point.

Great to hear that you've got it all working.

Keep us posted with how you get on

Jonathan

There's not a big code change with version 5 of those widgets, although the XML rendering software has been extended. These have been compiled to be compliant with Java 1.5 (as have all the Protege plugins) and have been tested at length on both Windows and Mac for several months. I wonder if you co...

Hi, We are just about to release version 5 of the Essential toolset which includes a new Viewer with revised and additional views. I think it's probably best to upgrade your installation before we go into the details of what might be going on with your repository. Keep watching our website for news ...

Hi Gian Piero, We certainly had planned to produce a TOGAF-related pack but working with our clients, we have not found that these 'out-of-the-box' TOGAF views were what is required - and we're always driven by the needs of our clients and users. Rather, we moved towards providing views that answer ...

I certainly can do. It is worth noting that the beta has no pre-configured examples for reference.

We're still on target for the end of the year and the Import Utility is ready and this packaged version would certainly be better to use

Jonathan

Hi, Many of those views will form part of the suite that are included in version 5. However, we do need to revisit that roadmap, which only serves to provide a rough guide to what we will be looking at. Much of our development is guided by what the user community needs, and even in the context of fo...

We're about to release a new version of the Import Utility that enables you to produce a Python / Jython script that can then be run in the Essential Update Tab and I think that that would give you what you are looking for. We are still looking at a Q4 2015 release for that. Right now, once you have...

Hi, It may be worth re-downloading the JAR file. We have heard of some people who have had some kind of corruption of this file during the download. It is an executable JAR, so you should be able to double-click on it to run it, as you already have a Java runtime installed. We are aware of some issu...

Thanks for the update. Great to hear that you've solved the initial publishing problem by downgrading Tomcat. We will investigate this for the forthcoming release. In terms of how this view is laying out the content - or rather failing to lay it out - we are upgrading this and many other views in th...

Thanks for this feedback we'll look into this further

Jonathan

Thanks for these. Nothing being reported about issues with publishing the snapshot images of your graphical models.

I'll continue to look into this

Jonathan

Hi, Thanks for posting this. The first thing to say about this view is that we are in the process of finalising the next release, which includes a new version of this view that re-works how this information is rendered. However, I've looked into the View code and tried it with some of our demo conte...

Thanks for the clarification. Good to know that there's nothing reported on the publishing tab. However, is Protege reporting anything that's not being shown in the GUI? On Windows, there's a Protege console window that can sometimes show errors that are otherwise not reported to the GUI. Do you see...

Hi, Each Protege repository (and therefore your environment) is stored in a single table in a database. Therefore, you can have your test repository in one table and your production repository in another table - all within the same database, on the same server. Each is quite compact and this approac...

Hi, That message that you've highlighted is unrelated to the rendering of the UML diagrams. What you've highlighted is a capability that turns your graphical models in Protege into PNG files that we can render in the Viewer. However, we have been moving away from this approach towards dynamically-re...

Thanks Alan - that's a very important note about the RMI Registry.

Glad you've got it running now.

Jonathan

This appears to be failing when it tries to get the path to the Protege Project that is used as a reference for all the Classes etc. Have you defined your repository in the Import Settings and uploaded a ZIP file of the Project? Is there already a project that appears in the Import Settings, target ...

Yes, very much so.

The Import Utility is a web application that is included in the v4 installer.
Let me know if you would like a preview of the next version (with many enhancements and fixes)

Jonathan

You use the "Depends on Technology" slot on the Application Provider to define the Logical Technology Model (types of technology rather than actual products). You then use the "Application Deployment Technical Architecture" slot on the Application Deployment of that Application P...

Hi Victor Yes - and this is something that we've done in the past via the import technology. I believe others are also doing similar things. The details will depend on what data you need to import, what CMDB you're using and how you've configured that CMDB. This means that the actual import is often...

Hi Victor, This is a view that we are re-working for version 5 - partly because these sections are tricky to get to render in this view. To get the Technology sections completed: Define the set of Technology Capabilities that this application requires from its technical platform Define a logical tec...

Thanks Trent, That's pretty much it. The view uses a Taxonomy (Technology Capability Layers) to control how the layout works. The view uses these layers for the graphical layout and you simply map your Technology Capabilities to these taxonomy terms to control where the different capabilities should...

Hi, Thanks for all the trace and follow up that you’ve sent through. One thing I noticed on the trace, was that a user “Guillaume” was not able to log in on the first attempt but did on the second. Also, user “Vincent” was able to log in. In the trace, the first important message to look for is: Pro...

This post here, describes how to configure Protege to work with MySQL 5.6+

Jonathan

Following up on this request, we have found the answer to making Protege work with MySQL 5.6+ What is the issue? It turns out that the problem is to do with the length (in bytes) of the short_value column. By default, this is set to VARCHAR(310) for MySQL databases. The answer is to set this to 255 ...

Thanks for the update. More questions from me, sorry! If you update the repository directly in the Protege client (connecting to the server-based repository) are those updates persisted? I wonder if the problem is with the Import Utility or with the Protege server itself. Protege server should, once...

Hi, This meta model documentation aims to do just this. Please let us know if there are any concepts etc. that are not clear. From the main Essential Meta Model reference page , you can view diagrams or a more technical (with descriptions of each aspect) documentation. We have a short guide to what ...

Hi, Let me start by asking you some questions to clarify your deployment. 1. Are you using the Essential Import Utility to perform these mass imports? 2. Have you configured your repository to be persisted in a relational database, e.g. MySQL / MS SQL Server? We recommend using what Protege call a ‘...

I've now updated that tutorial to read 'Application Family'

Jonathan

Hi,

The link is right at the bottom of the Tutorials homepage and is still active.

Alternativel, you can get to the TOGAF mapping here.

Jonathan

Hi, I've checked with home.xsl and it is using the eas:i18n() function. However, this is only for the 'static' text such as the labels, headings etc. on the View. This is a very data-driven view where the set of views that are displayed is controlled from within the repository itself - via the Repor...

Hi Vincent, Thanks very much for sharing this and showing us what you have been doing. This is looking really nice and it's always great to hear how Essential is being put to use. Very interesting that you've gone for Bootstrap and jQuery. We have a big revision of Viewer in version 5 (coming this y...

It may be simplest to resolve this if you could zip up and send us your repository. However, before we do this, let me summarise the logic that drives the 'Enhance' and 'Replace' buttons on that table to make sure that there's not a missing connection in your model. I do appreciate that the modellin...

Indeed - my mistake. eas:i18n() translates the static "chrome" on the views but the RenderInstanceLink() XSL function takes care of rendering instances and performing any translations dynamically. However, the RenderInstanceLink() method takes care of this - and is extensible - so that if ...

Thanks very much for posting back. That's very important to know and something that we will look into for the next release. I know that Java 8 has some impacts but I'm using that with Tomcat 7 for the Import Utility. One of the biggest issues with Tomcat 8 is around how files within the web applicat...

Thanks for the update.

This makes some sense. Can you tell whether the eas:i18n() function is being used in the Views that are trying to render those instances (that are using the Label slot rather than Name slot)?
Thanks

Jonathan

Hi Sandeep, There is a slot called :NAME that is used internally by Protege to manage the KB_... name - the internal instance ID. You can throw a switch in Protege to show this slot on the forms and then create a View that generates a CSV view that has columns of internal instance ID, Tech Node ID a...

Hi Victor,

I think removing that space between the '$' and 'PROTEGE_HOME' would be the first place to start.

Let us know if that helps

Jonathan