Much of this description is for the upcoming release, so if you download it to try it be warned!#
This plugin allows a live running JSPWiki to be visualized (much like the TouchGraphWikiBrowser). There are three parts to this:
- A plugin, which just emits an <applet> tag for:
- An applet which allows a user to launch the:
- Swing based visualization application (which can incidentally be used from the commandline if desired).
The visualiztion polls the wiki server for recent changes every update= seconds, so you can watch new pages and links spring into existance on the graph.
Inspiration was taken from the TouchGraphWikiBrowser, code in the graphview package is courtesy of KAON OI-modelerwho heavily refactored and cleaned up the rough & ready TouchGraph
code.
Here's what the applet looks like:
And here's a sample screen shot of a mostly empty wiki:
Installation#
The VisualizerPlugin is bundled in the attached visualizer.zip
Plugin Parameters#
This plugin has a bit more elaborate means of getting parameters beyond simple plugin invocation parameters. See VisualizerDirectivesPlugin for full documentation. There are some basic parameters to use beyond the directives though:- xmlrpc= - Required, The full url of the WikiRPCInterface to be visualized.
- update= = Optional, polling frequency for updates, default is 10 seconds.
- unreferenced= - Optional, True or False, show unreferenced pages in the visualization. Unreferenced pages float as an island if shown. Defaults to true.
- pages= Optional, fed to a QueryPlugin instance, only pages returned by the query get visualized.
Visualizer Features#
A list of the features supported by the visualizer are kept over on the Visualizer Features page to keep this one shorter.Visualizer Plugin Discussion#
Please keep most discussion about this plugin on this page.Thanks...#
I cannot say enough good thigs for the folks who refactored the TouchGraph code for the KAON OI-modeler
Bugs#
Two files in the ZIP are world writable!-r--r--r-- 1 root root 5380 Dez 23 10:22 BrowserLauncher.jar -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 314158 Mär 15 09:59 McKessonApsWikiPlugins.jar -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 234385 Mär 15 09:59 Visualizer.jar -r--r--r-- 1 root root 59964 Dez 23 10:22 xmlrpc.jarPlease fix that!
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