Hi Jean, On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Jean-Sebastien Delfino < jsdelf...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM, C.S. Nirmal J. Fernando (JIRA) > <dev@tuscany.apache.org> wrote: > > > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-3496?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13030511#comment-13030511] > > > > C.S. Nirmal J. Fernando commented on TUSCANY-3496: > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking at Graphviz API, playing around it and checking whether it > can be used in this project ! > > Also watching few screen casts, reading the paper "Drawing graphs with > dot" by Emden Gansner and Eleftherios Koutsoļ¬os and Stephen North to learn > "dot language", and experimenting :) > > > > Sounds good. > > I think it'd be interesting to try to generate the same diagram using > Batik, Graphviz, and 'nothing' (just print SVG directly in your code), > and then compare the three programs. There may be other options out > there too, but I'm suggesting to try the 'nothing' approach, as in my > experience SVG is easy enough to print without a complex object model > like Batik's. > Don't you think that 'nothing' approach would need some significant work on finding/implementing a layout building algorithm? If Graphviz implementation succeed, I am not sure whether it is worth to put an effort on 'nothing' approach. What do you think? Thanks. > -- > Jean-Sebastien > -- Best Regards, Nirmal C.S.Nirmal J. Fernando Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Blog: http://nirmalfdo.blogspot.com/
