Graphs

[javamann]

A graphing package would pretty much round out your product.

[JIDE Support]

We of course thought about it. Since there are already a few open source and commercial products on graphing out there, unless someone can give us a very good reason, I don't think we are ready to enter that market.

Thanks,

[javamann]

Can't give a really good reason to split your resources. For me it would be nice to only deal with one company.

[JIDE Support]

That's true. We of course want to have all available components too, but we all know in reality it's impossible.

Thanks,

[rhk]

I think, there is a need for a new graph package because:

- yGraph is tooooooooooooo expensive
- JGraph is a fake (cause it uses a TreeModel inside and has actually no extensibility features)
- prefuse is not very mature at the moment
- tensegrity is unstable with bad performance

The problem with all of them: They just focus on the Layouter Mechanism, so they have pretty dynamic and animated force-enabled layouters to display a graph, but if you look inside the details, you get shocked...

Also the usability is poor: for displaying graphs they are nice, but they fail when you are liked to build an editor with this...

So... if you have time, may be you can base on prefuse and build a pretty user interface for making editors a.s.o....

Good luck!
Robert

[JIDE Support]

Well, this is indeed interesting. There are also tom sawyer and jloox. How about these two?

Thanks,

[rhk]

I don't know about tom sawyer... will have a look later.

The JLoox is integrated in the ILog's JView package and this is more expensier then the ygraph package, and that's why I don't have any experience with this...

r.

[asimu]

There is also JGo by Northwoods (www.nwoods.com), which looks promising (Swing and SWT flavours).

And also GEF, if you're Eclipse or Eclipse RCP bound.

[weicong]

NetBeans graph library looks to be the best choice.