[jboss-dev] Re: Looking for ideas about possible improvements for a new APIviz release.

[Trustin Lee]

APIviz 1.3.0 is out -
http://www.dzone.com/links/apiviz_130released.html (Zone it! :)

Cheers,

— Trustin Lee, http://gleamynode.net/

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Trustin Lee <tlee at redhat.com> wrote:
> (Sorry for the wide distribution but APIviz doesn't have an active
> mailing list yet.)
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to improve APIviz ( http://code.google.com/p/apiviz/ ) in
> visualizing the overall API structure so that a user can figure out
> the overall relationship between classes and find a good place to dig
> from.  It seems to do what it is supposed to do pretty well IMHO.
> Here's an example Javadoc that used APIviz:
>
>  * http://www.jboss.org/file-access/default/members/netty/freezone/api/3.0/index.html
>
> However, I believe there are a lot of room for improvement, especially
> when it comes down to more complicated and large-scale project like
> JBoss Messaging, Hibernate, JBossAS, etc.  For example, obviously, the
> package dependency diagram doesn't help understanding the overall
> relationship between packages because the generated diagram is too
> large and scattered.
>
> So, let's assume that you are going to use APIviz for your project to
> visualize the relationship between classes (or packages).  What would
> you expect from it other than existing features?
>
> — Trustin Lee, http://gleamynode.net/
>
> PS: I'm still waiting for a new CMS lands down so that I can migrate
> the page in Google Code.  Please note that the source code is already
> hosted in our SVN repository.
>