ARIS Express 2.0 online – Upgrade instructions

It was a big suprise for me when suddenly I could not start Aris Express with the link I always used. After using the link insatlled during the installation of ARIS there was a time of activity and then suddenly everything worked again. It took some time to realize that I am running ARIS Express V2.0 now! At first I only realized that the models I have created my own are gone ...

There are some new features I really like in the "Muster-area" the new "Modellkopf". Unfortunately the date shown is the original date of creation of the file. I wozld like to have here the last saved date as this shows the version of a model on the print-out.

How can I include other attributes like the file name o similar?

Is there an instructon available how to manage this field?

Thanks in advance

Wolfgang

I am afraid ARIS Express 2.0 still fails for me (and all of my colleagues).

The error message is:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://download.ariscommunity.com/activation.jar

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload$DownloadTask.call(Unknown Source)

 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)

 at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)

 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

And when I paste the URL in question - http://download.ariscommunity.com/activation.jar - into my web browser, I get Error 404 (file not found).

Are we alone?

Best regards,

Bulat.

...

Unistalling ARIS Express as suggested, or even deleting the Temporary Internet Files in the Java control panel, does not help.

Best regards,

Bulat.

Hi Wolfgang,

you can only show attributes. The file path itself is not such an attribute.

Express itself does not provide an attribute for last change, this is the same attribute which the standard ABA/ABD provides. So, without the database support, this value is not updated.

Bye,

Frank

 Hi Bulat,

you can not access the JARs directly from the browser, so that is no suprise.

Can you give us more information, e.g. system, JRE version etc?

Bye,

Frank

Hi Wolfgang.

Pardon me, I've forgotten:

1.) the issue with the model header is a bug. Will be fixed in next service release

2.) the issue with the deleted "recent models" list is the issue I described above: "After upgrade, you might need to register the tool again and you might have lost personal settings such as grid size."

Bye,

Frank

Hi Frank,

I am on Windows XP, JRE 1.6.0_18.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Bulat.

Hi Bulat.

I think, then the only reason why it failes is that you've got IT restrictions. The JRE fetches the jnlp, but it's not allowed to get the JARS.

BTW: the link for the activation JAR is "http://download.ariscommunity.com/activation.jar.pack.gz". So you can check whether this works in your browser. In the JNLP, the JAR names differ because it is "translated". Even if you can open this URL in the browser, that does not mean that IT policies allow the JRE to download the JAR.

Bye,

Frank

Hi Frank,

Yes, the "pack.gz" link works - I can download the file in the browser.

As for Java security - I am a local admin on my PC, and the Java settings are nothing strange to me (see below). And ARIS Express 1.0 used to just work!

What else could it be?

Best regards,

Bulat.

Hi, Bulat.

You got me wrong: I did not mean the security settings on your machine,  but network policy. Sometimes, network admins are forced to forbid any other application than browsers to connect to the internet. This logically makes it impossible for Express to update or download.

Between Express 1.0 and 2.0, nothing has changed: we just put a new version online and that's it.

My question is: in the meantime, after installing Express 1.0: did anything change in your IT network policy?

As I described: more than hundred new downloads per day, working without problems. We do see, actually, some users having problems, but that does not explain why it works for others. So this topic is currently under investigation, because we also have seen other issues (network load, as example).

Bye,

Frank

Hi Frank,

You were right. Putting my PC on a plain internet connection did allow ARIS Express to update - it now works for me.

Interestingly, though - in Wireshark packet capture I could see that activation.jar.pack.gz was successfully downloaded by Java on my regular connection, where the update was failing - in fact, two times during the failed update... So there is something funny about it.

Thanks for the help!

Best regards,

Bulat.

Error Message after deinstaltion while downloading the app:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Ressource konnte nicht geladen werden: http://download.ariscommunity.com/components.jar

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)

 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

Please help.

Walter

Hi Walter,

I think, if that error window appears, there is more information. Can you post it here?

Bye,

Frank

JRE 1.6

Startdatei:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<jnlp spec="1.0+" codebase="http://download.ariscommunity.com" href="express.jnlp">

  <information>

    <title>ARIS Express 2.0</title>

    <vendor>IDS Scheer AG</vendor>

    <homepage href="http://www.ids-scheer.com"/>

    <description>Model your business by using ARIS Express.</description>

    <description kind="short">Model your business by using ARIS Express.</description>

    <icon kind="shortcut" href="alogo.ico"/>

    <icon kind="splash" href="splash.gif"/>

    <offline-allowed/>

    <shortcut online="false">

      <desktop/><!-- create desktop shortcut -->

      <menu submenu="ARIS Express"/> <!-- create menu item for this app -->

    </shortcut>

 <association extensions="adf" mime-type="x-application/adf">

  <description kind="short">ARIS Document File</description>

  <icon href="adf.ico"/>

 </association>

  </information>

   

  <security>

    <all-permissions/>

  </security>

  <resources>

    <property name="jnlp.packEnabled" value="true"/>

    <j2se version="1.6+" initial-heap-size="64m" max-heap-size="512m"  java-vm-args="-Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -XX:MaxPermSize=96m"/>

    <jar href="activation.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="antlr.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="aris71db2.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="aris_loader.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="arismethod.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="cl_locale.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="cl_locale_de.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="cl_locale_en.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="client.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="cltech.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="common.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-beanutils.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-codec.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-collections.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-configuration.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-digester.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-io.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-lang.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-logging.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="commons-pool.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="components.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="components2.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="express_embedded_de_help.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="express_embedded_en_help.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="expresslauncher.jar" main="true" download="eager" />

    <jar href="filters.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="hsqldb.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="itext.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="itextasian.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="jdom.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="jh.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="jide.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="js.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="jxlayer.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="mail.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="rapidSpell.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="saaj-api.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="saaj-impl.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="serializer.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="server.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="server_locale.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="server_locale_de.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="server_locale_en.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="server_method_oem04.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="ws-commons-util.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="wsdl4j.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="xalan.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="xercesImpl.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="xml-apis.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="xmlrpc-client.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="xmlrpc-common.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-annotations.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dictionaries.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-core.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-asa.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-db2.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-derby.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-hsqldb.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-lidl.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-mssql.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-olite.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-oracle.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-dl-mapping-pg.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-domhelper.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-graphics.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-graphlayout.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-guiframework.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-lipo.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-reportexecution.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-reportoutput.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-spellchecker-dictionaries.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-spellchecker.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y-utils.jar" download="eager" />

    <jar href="y.jar" download="eager" />

  </resources>

 

  <update check="background" policy="prompt-update"/>

   

  <!-- application class with main method -->

  <application-desc main-class="com.idsscheer.aris.expresslauncher.AExpressLauncher">

  <argument>helpurl</argument>

  <argument>http://www.ariscommunity.com/help/aris-express</argument&gt;

  <argument>banner</argument>

  <argument>http://banner.ariscommunity.com</argument&gt;

  </application-desc>

 </jnlp>

 

Ausnahme:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Ressource konnte nicht geladen werden: http://download.ariscommunity.com/components.jar

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)

 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

 

Gekapselte Ausnahme:

java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://download.ariscommunity.com/components.jar

 at sun.reflect.GeneratedConstructorAccessor8.newInstance(Unknown Source)

 at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

 at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)

 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(Unknown Source)

 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doRequest(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.BasicHttpRequest.doGetRequest(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)

 at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)

 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://download.ariscommunity.com/components.jar

 at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

 at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)

 ... 19 more

 

Hi Walter,

 

just to be sure is your JRE version above 1.6.10?

Regards Thomas

fyi

 java version "1.6.0_13"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.3-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

I have actually installed the updated download version (german language).

I have some trouble to find the Objects in the Symbols Frame for the following Models:

• Organigramm
• Prozesslandschaft
• Geschäftsprozess
• Datenmodell
• IT-Infrastruktur
• Systemlandschaft

Hi,

you can solve the problem like this:

Close Express. Go to your user profile: e.g. "C:\Documents and settings\<your user>\ARISExpress". In this directory, delete the "server" folder. Start Express again.

Did that help?

Bye,

Frank

Hi,

I have a problem upgrading 1.0 to 2.0 in UBUNTU 9.10. 1.0 installation was a breeze and the kickstart icon was created on the desktop. In linux, there is no Control Panel to deinstall 1.0, so I skipped over that step. After the installation 2.0 was started but - after closing - I do not know how to re-start it. If I want tu use it again, I have to start the .jnlp file, but that is not the solution. Please, advise.

Thanks,

Drazen Bosak

Hi Drazen,

well, there is a JRE, so there should be a console... Please navigate to the folder, where your JRE is installed. Within that folder, there is a file called "javacpl". (it is "javacpl.exe" in windows).

Please start this application. On the first page, "general/common", you can click the button "show/display..." for temporary internet files. There, also Express should be displayed. Right-click onto Express to get the context menu. Is there a menu entry like "create link/shortcut" or something?

Bye,

Frank 

Hi, Frank...

I have managed to solve my problem. Thanks for the prompt reply. It did gave me the motivation.

So;

1. In Linux (Ubuntu 9.10 in this case), there is no "javacpl" file name. Instedad, it is called Java ControlPanel and has this path:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15/jre/bin/ControlPanel

It is a "terminal application" (It does not show in any GUI menu, but can be added manually on Desktop with the "launcher" or on the MainMenu), but opens a window with 4 tabs:

       General / JAVA / Security / Advanced

"General" has 3 subwindows:

       About / Network Settings / Temporary Internet Files

"Temorary Internet Files" has 2 options:

      Settings (Modify Settings for temporary files) / View (Show the Java Cache Viewer)

"Java Cache Viewer" shows the installed Java apps and "right click" on any listed (In a row) gives 4 options:

      Run Online / Run Offline / Install Shortcuts / Delete / Show JNLP file / Go to homepage

I first tried the "Install Shortcuts" option to no avail. Then I selected "Delete" and deleted Aris. Then I did the reinstall and - voila! - everything worked! It seems that simply installing the new version "over" the previous one installs some set of diff. files which does not make the 2.0 version of the application functional. After deleting I got a Full install (Took more time - several minutes) and it worked as well as the initial 1.0 version.

Thanks, again. If you were not so professional and gave me the reply on such a short notice, I would not  have persisted in solving this problem as I got 2.0 working on another computer (UBUNTU again) with a clean install.

I believe, Aris might consider adding instructions for installation/use of Express on linux distributions commonly used in business environments: Ubuntu / CEntOS-RHEL / OpenSUSE-SLED / Mandriva.

Best regards,

Drazen Bosak