Getting started with the Rogue Wave JViews JavaScript Web application

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The XML Grapher example shows how to build the server side and also how to create a JavaScript client.

The XML Grapher example is available at <installdir> /jviews-framework/samples/xmlgrapher.

This example allows you to display a network of interconnected cities on top of the map in a Web application context.

The XML Grapher example

The XML Grapher example is composed of the following pieces:

An Rogue Wave® JViews component that can read an XML file describing a set of interconnected cities and display them on top of a map as shown in the picture above.

This component is located in the following files:

<installdir> /jviews-framework/samples/xmlgrapher/src/xmlgrapher/XmlGrapher.java

<installdir> /jviews-framework/samples/xmlgrapher/src/xmlgrapher/GrapherNode.java

Some example XML files for the component, located in <installdir>/jviews-framework/samples/xmlgrapher/webpages/data

A servlet that can produce JPEG images from the component described above.

The servlet is located in:

<installdir> /jviews-framework/samples/xmlgrapher/src/xmlgrapher/servlet/XmlGrapherServlet.java

A JavaScript client composed of:

The HTML starting page: <installdir> /jviews-framework/samples/xmlgrapher/webpages/dhtmldemo.html

The set of JavaScript™ components, located in: <installdir> /jviews-framework/lib/thinclient/javascript

Some images required for the example, located in: <installdir> /jviews-framework/samples/xmlgrapher/webpages/dhtml/images