Release Notes

JViews 5.5 Stylable Data Mapper and JViews for Workflow Release Notes

This document describes the main changes that have been made to the JViews Stylable Data Mapper (SDM) module and the JViews for Workflow module since version 5.0.

Incompatibilities
General Changes
Library Changes
New Packages

New Interfaces and Classes
Modified Classes
Example Changes


Incompatibilities


General Changes

The main new features in the SDM and JViews for Workflow modules are the following:

Library Changes

Changes in the CSS / Style Sheet Renderer

The main changes in CSS are:

Changes in the XML Save Format

The XML save format has changed to support the new metadata feature:

Changes in the Workflow Modeler

The main changes in the Workflow Modeler are the following:

New Packages

ilog.views.metadata
This package is a simple implementation of RDF to handle the new metadata mechanism.

New Interfaces and Classes

ilog.views.sdm.graphic.IlvDefaultManagerFrameGraphic
This class is an adapter that wraps an ilog.views.IlvDefaultManagerFrame in an ilog.views.IlvGraphic.
ilog.views.sdm.graphic.IlvDefaultManagerFrameGraphicBeanInfo
BeanInfo class for IlvDefaultManagerFrameGraphic.
ilog.views.sdm.graphic.IlvURLGraphic
A class that loads the contents of an IlvGraphic from a URL.
ilog.views.sdm.model.IlvRDFSDMModel
A metadata filter model which manages the metadata as RDF.
ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvCSSFunction
This interface define functions in IlvStyleSheetRenderer, so they can be called from a style sheet.
ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvGrapherPinRenderer
IlvGrapherPinRenderer is a filtering renderer that lets you define the positions of the connection points between the links and the nodes of the graph.
ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvGrapherPinRenderer.SDMGrapherPin
The class SDMGrapherPin implements the grapher pins used by the IlvGrapherPinRenderer.
ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvGrapherPinRenderer.SDMPinLinkConnector
The class SDMPinLinkConnector implements the link connector used by the IlvGrapherPinRenderer.
ilog.views.sdm.renderer.graphlayout.IlvGraphLayoutRenderer.ParameterSetter
This inner class is used to register custom graph layout parameters with the IlvGraphLayoutRenderer.
ilog.views.sdm.renderer.graphlayout.IlvSwimLanesRenderer
The SwimLanes renderer is responsible for displaying "swim lanes."
ilog.views.sdm.util.IlvXSLConnector
IlvXSLConnector is a subclass of IlvXMLConnector that can transform a third-party XML format into the format accepted by the SDM engine using XSLT.

Modified Classes

ilog.views.sdm.IlvSDMEngine ilog.views.sdm.graphic.IlvGeneralLink ilog.views.sdm.graphic.IlvGeneralNode ilog.views.sdm.graphic.IlvHalfZoomingGraphic ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvFilterSDMRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvHalfZoomingRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvInteractorRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvLegendRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvRendererUtil ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvSDMRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvStyleSheetRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.IlvSubGraphRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.graphlayout.IlvGraphLayoutRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.graphlayout.IlvLabelLayoutRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.graphlayout.IlvLinkLayoutRenderer ilog.views.sdm.renderer.maps.IlvMapRenderer ilog.views.sdm.util.IlvXMLConnector

Example Changes