Lukas pointed me to the NetBeans Graph Library used by Mobility Pack to create the flow charts between mobile forms, splash screens, etc (and in my humble opinion, will be used later to design flow charts for JSP pages, like in Java Creator Studio).
They also have a Web Start application there for you to test. The snapshot is from there. It actually got me thinking of reopening the dusted code of GenCore, my genetic algorithms framework of years past. One of the worst parts about it was the complexity of creating genetic processing circuits. To that end I was planning to write a front-end graph client, but just hated to start writing it all from scratch. You could say I was lazy, and even searching for existing frameworks didn’t quite get good results.
Risking by sounding even more like a marketing guy for NetBeans, this Graph Library brings some added value to the NetBeans rich client platform that actually makes me take a second look at it (I usually don’t like RCPs. Dunno why.)
Too bad there aren’t many tutorials on the subject, though (at least not on the graph’s site; I didn’t look around yet)..
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February 7th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
I forwarded your post and comments to David – the author of Graph library. There is email list dedicated to problems with graph library – users@graph.netbeans.org. Please, let david know all problems and requirement on that mailing list all enter issues to issuezilla – http://www.netbeans.org/issues/enter_bug.cgi?component=graph
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
“I was planning to write a front-end graph client”
Sounds like a job for GEF – the Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework.
Risking by sounding even more like a marketing guy for Eclipse, this framework brings some added value to the Eclipse rich client platform. ^_^