RE: Deliverable 12.1.1

>> What have you got?? ;-)
>
>Well hopes, aspirations that sort of thing ...  :-)

;-)

>Actually, we do have some code from our "ePerson" community information
>management experiment, though that was an intranet kind of thing with no
>connection to blogging so we might end up reusing some ideas more
>than the code.

Sounds interesting - anything about it online?

>Which library did you end up using?

JGraph. TouchGraph was the other leading contender, but I wanted full-blown
heavyweight JComponents as graph items, where as TG is more aligned towards
lightweight drawing. When I was trying to code this stuff myself, the glue
between my graph model and the Swing components started getting really
ugly - eventful spaghetti. JGraph only solves part of the problem, but it's
the part that was keeping me awake ;-) Also using a load of other o-s
libraries -  Jena, Jython etc. A real boon for functionality, but don't half
make for a big package <juvenile snigger/>.

>Good suggestion but probably outside the scope of this particular
>activity. One
>challenge I'd see with a 'Jena lite' would be the parser. ARP is
>very much aimed
>at quality and full standards conformance rather than 'liteness' -
>hence the use
>of Xerces which dwarfs jena.

Good point. It would seem a bit counterproductive to throw the quality away.

Cheers,
Danny.

Received on Wednesday, 6 November 2002 10:08:30 UTC