GINY Free and Java based Graph INterface librarY
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Free and Java based Graph INterface librarY GINY implements a very innovative system for sub-graphing and allows for stunning visuals. GINY is open source, provides a number of layout algorithms, and is designed to be a very intuitive API. GINY does not officially provide any algorithms. The idea is that the GINY library is simply an interface layer that is useful for building graphing projects. GINY will really only refer to an interface layer.Other packages do not meet all of our needs. yFiles and Tom Sawyer have the drawback of being somewhat expensive, and that price forms a barrier for inviting a loose collection of programmers to work on an application. Also, by not being open source, it is impossible to modify their code for your own uses. JGraph is open-source, and seems to get a lot press by the open-source community. JGraph is oriented more towards design layout, like Visio, and does not meet our needs in terms of graph operations. There are several other very good libraries listed on the NetworkViz Project that provide a more intuitive API for graph algorithms than JGraph. However, since GINY specifies only a set of Interfaces, any other package could concievably be adapted to implement the GINY interfaces.In order to meet our needs, and get around the limitations imposed by other packages, GINY was produced! It is being incorporated into Cytoscape, and is replacing yFiles in that project. If you have a project that is looking for a fully-featured open-source (LGPL, but could be re-liscensed ) graphing library, consider GINY.NOTE: GINY is provided and licensed under the terms of the GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL). Requirements: · Java

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