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ILOG JViews 8.1 is the newest release in the ILOG JViews suite of products. This release provides a native Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) plug-in for developers working in Eclipse, new data views, and significant performance improvements across all products. Several new demos and technical features have also been added. ILOG JViews 8.1 requires Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.5 or later.
A native SWT Eclipse plug-in
ILOG JViews previously offered a Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) solution for developers creating advanced graphics in an Eclipse environment. It uses the SWT-to-AWT bridge, providing an AWT canvas within the greater SWT application. ILOG JViews 8.1 improves the AWT solution with a new set of utilities for each ILOG JViews product.
An entirely new graph layout service has been added to ILOG JViews Diagrammer, for developers who prefer to work with native SWT. This service, called ILOG JViews Graph Layout for the Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework (GEF), provides a comprehensive alternative to the graph layout algorithms provided by GEF. It helps developers take advantage of the rich feature set of JViews Diagrammer's algorithms without requiring them to use AWT for drawing.
New data views
ILOG JViews Gantt boasts a new Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) view. The PERT view uses ILOG JViews Diagrammer to display the activity graph of dependencies. Activities are represented as nodes and end-to-start constraints are represented as links.
Performance enhancements
ILOG JViews 8.1 provides the following performance enhancements:
- Faster browser-based deployment
Improvements have been made to both thin client and applet deployment. For example, the size of the JavaScript files that are loaded has been reduced by a factor of four when using JavaServer Faces. The number of roundtrips to the server upon startup has been substantially reduced by approximately 25 to 50 percent when using an applet, because of improved BeanInfo and resource bundle loading.
- Faster file loading
A binary file format has been added to ILOG JViews Diagrammer's Dashboard Editor, complementing the exisiting XML-file format. This improves start-up time by a factor of five.
- Improved styling
ILOG JViews 8.1 provides performance improvements to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for the control and rendering of graphical objects. The time it takes to render 10,000 complex nodes in a diagram, for example, has been reduced from 1.3 seconds to under 0.9 seconds—approximately 50 percent faster. Further enhancements have been made to CSS execution and expression evaluation.
- Enhanced base level drawing operations
Many base level drawing operations have been enhanced. ILOG JViews 8.1 provides a faster selection of objects—especially when displaying large sets of data, faster scrolling (up to ten times faster with large data sets), smoother animation (up to four times faster) of moving objects, and highly improved link drawing.
More information
Find out what specific features have been added to each ILOG JViews product:
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