You need to have graphviz installed, which makes it not portable enough.
Prefuse understand graphml xml formats so it's really nice.

On 5/2/06, Ralph Pöllath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 02.05.2006, at 10:55, Wim Deblauwe wrote:
> It probably produces very nice graphs, but the 2 drawbacks (no pure
> Java
> implementation and only on Mac OS) seem too much to have a good
> solution in
> my opinion.

Just for clarification, Graphviz itself is GPL and cross-platform.

OmniGraffle Pro is a commercial diagramming application for Mac OS
that understands Graphviz's dot notation.

Cheers,
-Ralph.


> 2006/5/2, Ralph Pöllath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> On 01.05.2006, at 10:43, Wim Deblauwe wrote:
>> > in the book there is talk of a maven dependencies graph plugin. Is
>> > the work
>> > on that already started? I know there is a page[1] on the wiki
>> > about it but
>> > I don't have a clue if someone started to work on that?
>>
>> It shouldn't be too hard to produce a dependency graph using
>> Graphviz's Dot notation. LinguineMaps already uses Graphviz for
>> visualizing Hibernate mappings, WSDL, Ant files, etc.
>>
>> The drawback is that the official Dot renderer isn't Java, which
>> makes integration a bit more clumsy than it should be. Last time I
>> looked, there was no pure Java implementation, but maybe that has
>> changed in the meantime.
>>
>> Personally, I render dot files using OmniGraffle Pro (Mac OS X only),
>> which produces the best looking output for simple stuff.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -Ralph.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Graphviz
>> http://www.graphviz.org
>>
>> Graphviz Dot
>> http://www.graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html
>>
>> LinguineMaps
>> http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/Wiki.jsp?
>> page=LinguineMaps
>>
>> OmniGraffle Pro
>> http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/pro/
>>
>>
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