Friday, June 06, 2008

Visualizing EMF, now with Prefuse

After playing around with Graphviz, I looked at Prefuse next. In contrast to Graphviz, Prefuse is an interactive toolkit, i.e. you can manipulate the graphs. It is done completely in Java.

I integrated it into Eclipse (using SWT_AWT) and also provided an EMF meta model so you can easily map your own models to the Prefuse meta model. If you're interested, take a look at this screencast.

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Interesting screencast, thanks for sharing. Is there anywhere I can get the source code and explore it myself?

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Zviki Cohen : 07:56

I have to clean things up first and document it a little bit. Once I have that, I'll certainly make it available.

Stay tuned, I'll announce it here.

Markus

# posted by

Markus Voelter : 09:43

Thanks.

BTW, why hot use Zest, which is now part of GEF?

# posted by

Zviki Cohen : 13:11

Hey,

nice work! I'd love to get a hold of the source code when you're ready to publish it.

Do you think this approach will be able to scale to very large model portfolios?

-- AH

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Unknown : 17:30