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Features

ILOG JViews Diagrammer provides a broad range of services for building high-end graphical displays. To help you master the product, we have organized it into several distinct modules, each providing its own set of services. The chart below lists only the main functionality in each module — keep in mind that there are far more specific services provided in each module that are not listed here.

Dashboard Editor

This tool is a point-and-click editor for creating dashboard displays

Static object manipulation

Imports SVG, BMP, PNG, DXF, etc. for diagram backgrounds or decorative foreground objects
Full control of object layering and dynamic symbol overlays

Integration with dynamic symbols

Symbols created in Symbol Editor are completely reusable
Test mode, with predefined data sources
Dashboard parameters are exposed for connection to data model
A palette of over 20 types of chart objects from ILOG JViews Charts (license required) is included

Customizable

Editor is delivered with source code so that it can be tailored for an organization's needs. (e.g., adding custom data sources)

Diagram editing with Designer

This tool is a point-and-click editor for creating diagram-based displays.

Data Connection Wizard

Populates the Stylable Data Mapper (SDM) component with pre-built connectors to XML, JDBC, or flat files. Ideal for testing diagram with different data sets.

Symbols

Symbols created with Symbol Editor are completely reusable
Style rules can be defined to determine how symbols react to changes in data
Test and editing modes provided

Miscellaneous

Graph layout algorithms and their parameters are accessible, enabling the developer to determine the appropriate settings for the diagram.
Resulting Designer Project File (.idpr format) can be loaded in final application and further tailored with Diagrammer SDK

Symbol Editor

This tool is a point-and-click editor for creating symbols that can be reused in diagram, dashboard, and map displays.

Import graphics

Imports static parts of symbols from popular drawing tools, such as Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, and the like, using the standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) interchange format. This enables an organization graphic designer’s to create graphics using their favorite authoring environments.
Raster formats can also be imported

Adding dynamic behaviors

Point-and-click editing for defining behavior rules
Developers decide what parameters are exposed
Full test mode

Symbol Management

Symbols are designed to be packaged for reuse with comments, etc.
Organized in palettes, with directories
Symbol Editor comes with packaged with dozens of ready-to-use symbols

Graph Layout Services

Numerous graph layout algorithms and services are included.

Stylable Model-View Component

This module is the top most layer on the Diagrammer architecture stack.

High-level Data model

Encapsulates services of the Drawing Framework in a Model-Views component familiar to Swing developers
Pre-built XML and JDBC data connections
Manages the connection between the model and the views
Uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control how objects are drawn
CSS style rules can be changed easily for rapid prototyping of the interface
Even end users can write new style rules
Drawing Framework fully accessible for specialized needs

Pre-built Data Views

Diagram
Map view (integrates easily with JViews Maps)
Overview with navigation
Tree view
Table view

Business Process Management (BPM)

For those developers creating workflow or other modeling applications, Diagrammer provides these out-of-the-box services.

BPM standard support

BPM notation, including pre-built graphical objects, fully supported (see bpmi.org)
A customizable modeler with source code is provided as a starting point for your app
Swim lanes, pools, and subgraphs fully supported
Default XML I/O format provided (can be customized)

Drawing Framework

This module is a Java SDK layer on top of Java2D and Swing that adds the ability to manage large sets of graphic objects.

Graphical Objects

Graphic objects are built atop Java2D primitives. (All Java2D primitives supported)
Developer can create custom objects by combining or by subclassing or by using an editor(provided)
Import from any raster image or SVG file as part of the object

Behavior Objects

Basic command objects, representing common graphic interaction functions such as selection and creation
Developers can customize these behaviors by subclassing
Undo/Redo
Navigation with zoom in/out, pan and overview windows

Data Structure

Dynamic Quad tree
Stores graphics on "layers"
Efficient functions for redrawing and moving objects
Fast file load and save, to multiple formats
Multiple views can be opened on a single data structure

"Graphs" (node-link diagrams)

Any graphic object can represent a node
Nodes can have multiple connection points ("pins")
Nodes can represent other graphs and be expanded and collapsed
Links (connections between nodes) can be straight, curved, or have multiple vertices
Links can have multiple decorations
Support for hypergraphs and their hyperlinks (links that have multiple source and destination nodes)

Rich Web Client Deployment

Services to allow the same JViews Diagrammer application to be deployed to the desktop or the Web

Ajax-enhanced thin client deployment

Incremental refresh, interactive editing, context-sensitive behaviors
Packaged as standard JavaServcer Faces components, for easy deployment
Prebuilt-interaction tools

Other options

Portlet integration
Servlet deployment

Miscellaneous Services

Map backgrounds

Fully integrated with ILOG JViews Maps and ILOG JViews Maps for Defense products

Printing

Print preview
Print set-up
Customizable

Eclipse Integration

Run inside Eclipse application
Interaction between SWT controls and Diagrammer canvas fully supported

Eclipse Graph Layout plug-in for the Graph Editing Framework (GEF)

Use the graph layout algorithms from Diagrammer to control the GEF graphics
Enables a “pure SWT” RCP application to be created
Performance and feature set superior to that provided by the Eclipse Open Source projects

Samples