How to display flowcharts dynamically in java?

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I want to develop a java desktop application that takes some inputs from the user and store it in a database. After that, when user clicks on a button (say display) it displays the information, entered by him earlier, in a flowchart like format.

Can I display that information in the form of flowcharts?

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score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 01 '10 at 08:17

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You can try out JGraph

answered Jan 01 '10 at 08:17

Santosh Gokak

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can I develop data flow diagrams dynamically based on the input entered by a user. How can integrate it with swings. – user241426 Jan 01 '10 at 09:47
we have a couple of commercial products that use swing and JGraph. It works pretty well. – Tim Williscroft Jan 04 '10 at 00:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 01 '10 at 14:49

You might want to take a look at yEd. It stores drawings in XML format that can be very easily emulated based on your data. We've used this approach in the past and it worked like a treat.

If you need the same functionality on the back-end, just take a look at their yFiles library.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 01 '10 at 09:03

You also could look at yWorks ( http://www.yworks.com/en/index.html ), another graphing library for java and .net (but a $$$ commercial product).

I like prefuse ( http://prefuse.org/ ) for graphs, even they stopped active development for the java lib a while ago, but you might need to do more coding with it to get a flowchart implementation.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 01 '10 at 14:15

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You can use a drawing library for that. For example JFDraw.

answered Jan 01 '10 at 14:15

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How to display flowcharts dynamically in java?

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