Basic concepts

Presents the concepts you need to know to evaluate JViews Diagrammer and start to appreciate its features and capabilities. The JViews Diagrammer documentation makes use of these concepts and you will need to understand them to implement your requirements.

In this section

General architecture
- Provides an overview and illustration of the architecture of JViews Diagrammer.
Views
- Describes the different ways of viewing a diagram.
Data
- Describes the basic concept of a data model in JViews Diagrammer.
Styling
- Describes the styling mechanism used in JViews Diagrammer.
Symbology
- Gives a short definition of what a symbol is in JViews Diagrammer.
User interactions
- Introduces the concept of interactors.to manipulate diagrams.
Graph layout
- Introduces the concept of layout algorithms to optimize the layout of diagrams.
Refreshing the display in real time
- Introduces the techniques used to optimize the refresh of diagrams.

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Introducing JViews Diagrammer