Once you have specified your data source and the styling of the
diagram component, you will need to integrate it into a Java™ application and deploy it. This
phase includes the writing of some Java code.
In order to build and deploy an application containing a JViews Diagrammer diagram
component, you need to first consider the required deployment path
and the functional type of the application.
Deployment paths
The deployment paths available are:
- Swing application
- JavaServer™ Faces (JSF)
- Thin client
- Applet
This section discusses the Swing application path. A ready-to-use
Swing application based on a diagram component is supplied by the
class IlvDiagrammerApplication.
For discussions of the JSF and thin client deployment paths, see
Developing JViews Web applications and Developing JViews Diagrammer
JavaScript Web applications
in Building Web Applications. For a
description of the applet deployment path, see Creating an applet in Developing
with the JViews Diagrammer SDK.
Functional application types
The functional type of the application
influences the choice of deployment path.
There are two functional types of
application:
- Display and navigation, providing different views of data but no other interaction
- Editing, with a graphical editor that provides update capabilities
If you are building a display and
navigation application, you can deploy it as a Swing application,
a thin client or an applet.
If you are building a graphical editor,
you can deploy it as a Swing application or possibly an applet if
the user does not need to save a changed version.