On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Nirmal Fernando <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Raymond Feng <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, Nirmal. >> The idea is to have a simple way to generate a diagram from the composite >> file to illustrate the SCA components (service/reference) and their wirings. >> It could be a simple .dot or .svg file. >> Eclipse has a tooling project for SCA [1]. It can generate nice diagrams. >> This idea is more on the lightweight side, for example, allowing a browser >> to point to Tuscany runtime to show the composite diagram. >> [1] http://www.eclipse.org/stp/sca/ > > Thanks for the quick response Raymond, I will study on Apache Batik Project > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ and Eclipse tool and will log my findings > on JIRA. > > If you have any other thing in your mind that I should start looking at, > please > share them. > > I am hoping to contribute to this project in GSoC! > > Thanks. > ...
Just a thought: if you're going to generate SVG using Batik, it'd be really cool to be able to edit the diagram too. It shouldn't be too difficult to add mouse onclick event handlers to the SVG elements representing components, wires etc and let the user move them around, unwire and rewire components for example. Another thought, since Raymond mentioned Eclipse tools. It may be worth taking a look at Eclipse Orion [1][2] and see if you can use any of it... I mean, if it's not too complicated and you think that it'll actually help you with the user interface. [1] http://www.eclipse.org/orion/ [2] http://download.eclipse.org/e4/orion/ -- Jean-Sebastien
