Java News from Friday, October 10, 2008

David Benson and Gaudenz Alder have posted a beta of JGraph X. According to Benson, "JGraph X is based on the mxGraph architecture, a re-designed core based on 7 years of JGraph experience. The library will be available under the LGPL, the 1.0 release is due later this year. The new library API is designed to provide a much lower learning curve as well as making the feature set easier to extend and integrate. Sharing the model code base of mxGraph (http://www.mxgraph.com/details.html), the web diagramming library, enabling applications written in Java to be more easily ported to mxGraph-based web applications. Overall, JGraph X provides more features that JGraph, with a far smaller code size and complexity. Redesigning the codebase from scratch now means implementing common feature extensions are easier and require less coding. A number of new loosely coupled application-centric features have been added, making prototyping even faster, without their usage restricting application flexibility."