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#+TITLE: JavaInspect - Utility to visualize java software
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-- [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=javainspect.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][download latest snapshot]]
+* (document settings) :noexport:
+** use dark style for TWBS-HTML exporter
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-- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of version 3 of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public
- License]] or later as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+* General
+- This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the [[https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html][GNU Lesser General Public License]] as
+ published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+ License, or (at your option) any later version.
- Program authors:
- Svjatoslav Agejenko
- - Homepage: http://svjatoslav.eu
+ - Homepage: https://svjatoslav.eu
- Email: mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu
+ - [[https://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/][Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu]]
- Tony Bargnesi
- GitHub fork for the project:
https://github.com/abargnesi/javainspect
-- [[http://www.svjatoslav.eu/programs.jsp][other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu]]
+** Source code
+- [[https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=javainspect.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format]]
-* (document settings) :noexport:
-** use dark style for TWBS-HTML exporter
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+- [[https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=javainspect.git;a=summary][Browse Git repository online]]
-* General
+- Clone Git repository using command:
+ : git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/javainspect.git
+
+* Goal and operating principle
Goal: simplify/speed up understanding the computer program code by
automatically visualizing its structure.
-[[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/graphs/][See example produced graphs]] for [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D - 3D engine project]].
+[[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/graphs/][See example produced graphs]] for [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D - 3D engine project]].
JavaInspect can be used as a [[id:acf1896a-74b4-4914-acf6-a77075e07f25][standalone commandline utility]] as well as
[[id:bbeeffc8-3767-440d-8d93-ec9124dd60ee][java library]]. JavaInspect uses primarily Java built-in reflection to
@@ -44,25 +50,24 @@ how to instuct Javainspect what to do.
After discovering application structure and optionally filtering out
unimportant parts, JavaInspect produces GraphViz dot file that
-describes data to be visualized. Then launches GraphViz to generate
+describes data to be visualized. Then launches [[https://graphviz.org/][GraphViz]] to generate
bitmap graph in PNG or SVG format.
-By default on your Desktop directory when operated in library mode or
-current working directory when operated as standalone commandline
-application.
-
-Note: GraphViz is developed and tested so far only on GNU/Linux.
+Notes:
++ JavaInspect is developed and tested so far only on GNU/Linux.
++ See: [[https://github.com/pahen/madge][Madge - similar tool for JavaScript]]
* Example graphs
+ A very simple example:
- [[file:example.png][file:example.resized.png]]
+ file:example.png
Graph legend:
file:legend.png
-+ [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/graphs/][See example produced graphs]] for [[http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D - 3D engine project]].
+
++ [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/graphs/][See example produced graphs]] for [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D - 3D engine project]].
* Usage
:PROPERTIES:
@@ -136,20 +141,18 @@ Control code in general does the following:
1. Create graph object.
2. Java reflection/classloaders does not provide mechanism for
discovering all classes under given package. Therefore you need to
- declare at least some classes to be added to the graph by:
- + Manually adding individual classes to the graph.
- + and/or: Let GraphViz recursively scan and parse specified
- directories with Java source code files to discover class names.
- + For every class added to the graph, GraphViz will recursively
- inspect it and add all referecned classes to the graph as well.
+ declare at least some classes to be added to the graph by manually
+ adding individual classes to the graph. For every class added to
+ the graph, GraphViz will recursively inspect it and add all
+ referecned classes to the graph as well.
3. Graphs easilly get very big and complex so optionally we filter
- important code using classname wildcards patterns based blacklist
- and/or whitelist.
+ important code using classname [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)][glob]] patterns based blacklist and/or
+ whitelist.
4. Optionally we can tune some rendering parameters like:
+ Possibility to remove orphaned classes (classes with no
references) from the graph.
+ Specify target directory for generated visualization
- files. (Default is user desktop directory)
+ files. (Default is current directory)
+ Keep intermediate GraphViz dot file for later inspection.
5. Render graph.
@@ -190,30 +193,8 @@ Result:
- Generated DOT file: [[file:JavaInspect.dot][JavaInspect.dot]]
- Generated PNG image: [[file:JavaInspect.png][JavaInspect.png]]
-*** example 2: scan java code, apply filters
-#+BEGIN_SRC java
-// Create graph
-final ClassGraph graph = new ClassGraph();
-
-// Recursively scan current directory for Java source code and attempt
-// to detect class names from there to be added to the graph.
-graph.addProject(".");
-
-// Blacklist example classes from being shown on the graph
-graph.blacklistClassPattern("eu.svjatoslav.inspector.java.structure.example.*");
-
-// do not show single classes with no relationships on the graph
-graph.hideOrphanedClasses();
-
-// Produce bitmap image titled "JavaInspect full project.png" to the
-// user Desktop directory.
-graph.generateGraph("JavaInspect full project");
-#+END_SRC
-Result:
- - Generated PNG image: [[file:JavaInspect%20full%20project.png][JavaInspect full project.png]]
-
-*** example 3: GraphViz embedded in another project
-1. Download project Sixth [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][code snapshot]].
+*** example 2: GraphViz embedded in another project
+1. Download project Sixth [[https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz][code snapshot]].
2. Inspect and run *DataGraph.java*.
*** Embedding JavaInspect in your Maven project
@@ -225,7 +206,7 @@ Declare JavaInspect as dependency:
eu.svjatoslavjavainspect
- 1.6
+ 1.7
...
@@ -290,8 +271,10 @@ LOT of cool ideas could be implemented. For intstance:
- PlantUML (TODO)
- Interactive 3D visualization (TODO)
-- FEATURE: Replace internal java parser in package
- eu.svjatoslav.inspector.java.methods with: https://javaparser.org/
+- FEATURE: Implement (or integrate existing java parser
+ https://javaparser.org/) to be able to produce code visualizations
+ based on source code (in addition to current reflection based
+ approach).
- FEATURE: Integarte with [[http://plantuml.com/class-diagram][PlantUML]].
@@ -310,7 +293,7 @@ LOT of cool ideas could be implemented. For intstance:
- FEATURE: Possibility to attach to JVM using JVM agent.
-- FEATURE: Possibility to inspect graphs in 3D using [[http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth-3d/doc/index.html][Sixth 3D engine]].
+- FEATURE: Possibility to inspect graphs in 3D using [[https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/][Sixth 3D engine]].
- FEATURE: Possibility to select classes/fields/values to be
visualized in some graph query language. For greater flexibility in
@@ -324,3 +307,6 @@ LOT of cool ideas could be implemented. For intstance:
- FEATURE: Configurable maven plugin to generate graphs as part of the
project build/release process.
+* See also
+Similar or alternative solutions:
++ http://www.class-visualizer.net/