Mailing-List: contact dev-help@maven.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org>
Received-SPF: pass (herse.apache.org: domain of baerrach@gmail.com designates
 64.233.184.233 as permitted sender)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws;
        d=gmail.com; s=beta;
        h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
        b=sHlX6blxeMvIivZxj++BBvBfTWzpHiy8whuyP3MJ/L8ab6UYr+7lwv+IpStjasmtapPbX91wkAlyQq6Tj7wyZwG2PX4aV50txnOA1UnNurDk/vbZR/c0PrjgbVzzFE1vcJ/Tmxe96wELXCsH7lLvULbG9fRleGYl6QlPv9VTyt4=
Message-ID: <f6b307f10705111408r7f40a479n90981d8cf62ba4e6@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 06:38:04 +0930
From: "Barrie Treloar" <baerrach@gmail.com>
To: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org>
Subject: Re: Maven Diagram Maker
In-Reply-To: <464451E7.7050106@newitech.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <464451E7.7050106@newitech.com>

On 5/11/07, Piotr Tabor <ptab@newitech.com> wrote:
> I would like to provide two components: a graphical editor and a Maven
> plug-in.
> 'The Graphical Editor will offer live (WYSIWYG) preparation of a
> graphical presentation of the project by setting such properties as:
>      - Type and subset of data, we want to present,
>      - What part of the data is to be presented,
>      - The method of presenting of each type of diagram nodes (that is,
> what attributes of the item will be displayed), and the general 'style'
> of the presentation. I would like to provide UML-like design.
>     - The general layout algorithm
>     - The positions of selected locked nodes =96 which we want to put in =
a
> fixed area. All other nodes will be positioned automatically.
> The schema of the diagram created by the editor will be saved to an XML
> file.
> Additionally the editor may be used as a graphical browser (explorer) of
> chosen aspects of the project. The editor will use the Prefuse library
> (http://prefuse.org).
>
> The Maven Plug-in (maven-graph-plugin) =96 will be using the XML file
> prepared by the Graphical Editor and the current state of project to
> prepare images in various graphic formats (JPG, TIFF, PNG and others
> supported by the Sun JAI library
> (http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jai/). The
> plug-in will be able to prepare
> the HTML <map> tag for the picture too (to create an active area on web
> page containing the image). The resulting file will be ready  to use in
> the next Maven phases by Doxia or other documenting tool.

Does this mean we can export the graph of dependencies in a UML format?

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@maven.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@maven.apache.org