Hi, On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:27 AM, Jean-Sebastien Delfino <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
This sounds interesting Jean, thanks for firing it up! > > 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/ Orion looks pretty cool! I will consider the possibility of using it in this project. Thanks Jean for the support, hope you'll continue! 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/
