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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Icon for Locked Packages/Elements

« on: September 09, 2007, 09:08:22 pm »

Sure, the diagrams should be included as well. I mistakenly thought also about diagrams when mentioning elements.

Regards,
Tom

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Suggestions and Requests / Icon for Locked Packages/Elements

« on: September 07, 2007, 01:23:20 am »

Hi,

I'v set up the EA to require a user lock for editing a diagram or element.
I know the user locks are available via "My locks" but it would be really helpful if locked objects would be marked as such in the project browser using a small icon as it's done for controlled packages.

Regards,
Thomas

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Suggestions and Requests / Project Discussion Forum Search

« on: July 11, 2007, 05:40:01 am »

Hi,

it would be very useful to have the posts in the project discussion forum included in the model search (probably controlled by a property) or to be able to search the posts in an own search. This would make the forum a knowledge base as well.

Anyway, thanks for your great piece of software!

Regards,
Tom

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General Board / Re: EA Implementation Language

« on: September 09, 2007, 09:06:13 pm »

Wrong question Tom...

The REAL question is what modelling tool did they use to design it...

Have they been able to reverse engineer EA into EA?

Just a thought...
Paolo

Hi Paolo,
of course, this is also an interesting discussion but I wouldn't want to ask such a highly philosophical question since this is a classical chicken and egg problem.  

Regards, tom

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General Board / EA Implementation Language

« on: September 07, 2007, 01:18:44 am »

Hi, I'm just curious: What is the programming language the enterprise architect is written with?

Does anybody know?

Greets

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General Board / Re: Error with Template Package

« on: July 30, 2007, 01:11:41 am »

As I discovered, this only appears in case of enabled security and just if the option "Require User Lock to Edit" is activated.

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General Board / Error with Template Package

« on: July 24, 2007, 02:45:10 am »

Hi all,

I've just created a template package in order to use format templates.
Afterwards, as soon as I create a new diagram and try to create an element which has been defined on a template, I get an error message ("There was an error creating the requested object. Please try again later."). However, the element appears on the diagram, but not in the project browser.

On the other hand, elements which have not been defined in the template package can be created without any problems.

Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be? Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Tom

Environment:
EA 7.0.814
Used with a central repository (MySql/ODBC).

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Automation (Java API) - Connecting to EA twice

« on: June 18, 2008, 06:26:20 pm »

Hi, see the following thread for a possible solution:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1206631689/0

Regards,
Tom

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: SSJavaCOM: Unknown exception on comConstructor

« on: June 18, 2008, 06:24:14 pm »

Hi,

we had the same problem and were able to solve it. The description of our solution might be a help to you as well:

We used the automation interface the following way: On a Windows 2003 server, we installed an EA build 830 completely and also a Java application that connects to a EA repository using the automation interface. This tiny java application is triggered by the windows scheduler every night to perform backup operations. Everything worked fine, until one certain day, when the automation interface threw a Unknown Exception (build 828) and with build 830 an exception with the following message: Failed to construct object. Error code: 0x80080005
We found out, that this error only happens, if no user is logged in into the server at the time the job is running (via remote desktop).

In this case, no complete Windows profile is available and hence there is a security problem. The solution is to define the correct user for the DCOM-Component execution:
In the control panel to go "Management" and choose "component services". There, expand component services folder until you can choose the DCOM Service folder. In there, you have to look for an entry named EA.APP. In the context menu choose "Properties" and go to the "identity" tab. Enter the username and password of the user with which the job should be executed.

Regards,
Tom

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: EA running through ASP.NET/COM

« on: June 18, 2008, 06:19:18 pm »

Hi,

we had the same failure in the Java automation interface. A "Unknown Exception" in pre-830 builds are now displayed as "Failed to construct object. Error code: 0x80080005".

Identifying the user that is used to run the DCOM component as described above helped to solve the problem.

Thanks!
Tom

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Automation Interface is showing Dialogs

« on: September 12, 2007, 11:58:15 pm »

Hi, I've created a simple batch-tool which allows me to export and backup (in xmi) my models frequently triggered by an external scheduler.
Now, the automation interface always shows the export dialog during the export which is helpful in order to see the progress but might be a bit annoying in case the job should run in background.

Is there a way to suppress the dialog?

Thanks,
Tom

ps: is anyone interested in this free ea-job-executor utility? I would release it as open source if potential users are available.