Month: April 2011

I gave Archi on Linux some love this week. This involved de-commissioning my VM installation of Ubuntu 10.10 under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook and instead installing VirtualBox and Ubuntu Natty Narwhal (11.04) on my Windows machine (which works quite nicely). This makes it easier to access and flip between Linux and my main Windows […]

This post reminded me why I didn’t use GMF back in the early days. Quote: Lots of generated code you do not really know and by far not understand In case of non-standard behaviour you need to adapt that code Re-generation of partly modified generated coding is difficult and will most of the time again […]

There’s a new proposal for an Eclipse BPMN 2.0 Modeller here and here. “The BPMN 2.0 Modeler provides a graphical modeling tool which allows creation and editing of BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) diagrams. The tool is built on Eclipse Graphiti and uses the BPMN 2.0 EMF meta model currently being developed within the Eclipse […]

Something that I’d like to highlight is how the availability of Archi as a free tool has allowed for a greater degree of sharing and discussion of EA in our UK Higher Education sector, and, indeed in the wider community, both commercial and non-commercial. Without Archi would there have been the Coventry Modelling Bash, the […]

…like treacle it becomes less agile. Every decision, every movement is heavily considered and pondered, questioned over and over in case it’s the wrong decision. Each new feature or change can have serious consequences for the increasing number of users of the application. Like Hamlet, equivocating. In the early days it was all so faster, […]

Friday afternoon. I just wrapped up editing and writing the Help Documentation for the new features in Archi 1.7. It’s been a long haul since I started this coding sprint in February. This last week I added User Properties to Archi, a feature that should be useful in itself but which will probably bring with […]

My colleague in CETIS, Madam Cooper, recently published an informal “Horizon Scan” document. You can read about it here. There’s an interesting section on possible future trends in “Cross-platform Applications”. This got me ranting thinking again about desktop apps vs. web apps. I agree somewhat with the comments about Java on the desktop as Rich […]

Archi 1.6 was released on Feb 6th. Since then I’ve been coding off and on for fixes and features for the next version, 1.7. I’d planned to release this at the start of April but I’ve had plenty of other stuff to do as well – coming up to speed with Git, helping out some […]

Here’s the thinking behind the (unfinished) implementation of the Sketch View, inspired by Chapter 6 of the book, “Enterprise Architecture at Work”: The aim is to just get your stuff captured without caring about the formal constraints of the ArchiMate language. Quick. Capture. Discuss. Iterate. Change. Inspire. Converse.

I set up a Developer Forum on Google Groups. We need to get more contributors if we are to sustain Archi beyond 2011. We need to be thinking about funding, code contributions, and possibly getting it adopted by the Eclipse Foundation. Can you help? (Also, the main Archi Website has also been updated with new […]