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<h1 class="title">JavaInspect - Utility to visualize java software</h1>
-<div id="table-of-contents">
+<div id="table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
-<div id="text-table-of-contents">
+<div id="text-table-of-contents" role="doc-toc">
<ul>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline1">1. General</a></li>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline2">2. Example graphs</a></li>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline6">3. Usage</a>
+<li><a href="#org6c08335">1. General</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#org1f40be1">1.1. Source code</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#org05e5b28">2. Goal and operating principle</a></li>
+<li><a href="#org3ca1849">3. Example graphs</a></li>
+<li><a href="#orga20e9d8">4. Installation</a></li>
+<li><a href="#orgf9f5b99">5. Usage</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#org952985c">5.1. Usage as commandline utility</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#org78673fb">5.1.1. Available commandline arguments</a></li>
+<li><a href="#orgbf7fb2b">5.1.2. Specifying classes to render</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#orgc792989">5.2. Usage via Java API</a>
<ul>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline3">3.1. example 1: individually picked objects</a></li>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline4">3.2. example 2: scan java code, apply filters</a></li>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline5">3.3. example 3: GraphViz embedded in another project</a></li>
+<li><a href="#org68fe457">5.2.1. Example 1: individually picked objects</a></li>
+<li><a href="#orge4c6237">5.2.2. Example 2: GraphViz embedded in another project</a></li>
+<li><a href="#org851b3a6">5.2.3. Embedding JavaInspect in your Maven project</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
</ul>
</li>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline7">4. Embedding JavaInspect in your Maven project</a></li>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline8">5. Requirements</a></li>
-<li><a href="#orgheadline9">6. TO DO</a></li>
+<li><a href="#orgdb7d308">6. TO DO</a></li>
+<li><a href="#org30b046f">7. See also</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<hr />
+
+<div id="outline-container-org6c08335" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="org6c08335"><span class="section-number-2">1.</span> General</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li><a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=javainspect.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">download latest snapshot</a></li>
+<li>This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public License</a> as
+published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
+License, or (at your option) any later version.</li>
-<li>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of version 3 of the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">GNU Lesser General Public
-License</a> or later as published by the Free Software Foundation.</li>
+<li>Program authors:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Svjatoslav Agejenko
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Homepage: <a href="https://svjatoslav.eu">https://svjatoslav.eu</a></li>
+<li>Email: <a href="mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu">mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www.svjatoslav.eu/projects/">Other software projects hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a></li>
+</ul></li>
-<li>Program author:
+<li>Tony Bargnesi
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Svjatoslav Agejenko</li>
-<li>Homepage: <a href="http://svjatoslav.eu/">http://svjatoslav.eu/</a></li>
-<li>Email: <a href="mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu/">mailto://svjatoslav@svjatoslav.eu/</a></li>
+<li>GitHub fork for the project:
+<a href="https://github.com/abargnesi/javainspect">https://github.com/abargnesi/javainspect</a></li>
+</ul></li>
</ul></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<div id="outline-container-org1f40be1" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="org1f40be1"><span class="section-number-3">1.1.</span> Source code</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-1-1">
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=javainspect.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">Download latest snapshot in TAR GZ format</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://svjatoslav.eu/programs.jsp">other applications hosted at svjatoslav.eu</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=javainspect.git;a=summary">Browse Git repository online</a></li>
+
+<li><p>
+Clone Git repository using command:
+</p>
+<pre class="example">
+git clone https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/git/javainspect.git
+</pre></li>
</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline1" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="orgheadline1"><span class="section-number-2">1</span> General</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-1">
+<div id="outline-container-org05e5b28" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="org05e5b28"><span class="section-number-2">2.</span> Goal and operating principle</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
<p>
Goal: simplify/speed up understanding the computer program code by
automatically visualizing its structure.
</p>
<p>
-JavaInspect is a Java library that primarily uses Java reflection to
-discover and visualize any part of Java program provided that
-classes to be visualised are available in the classpath.
+<a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/graphs/">See example produced graphs</a> for <a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Sixth 3D - 3D engine project</a>.
</p>
<p>
-JavaInspect currently has no GUI, configuration files, embedded
-scripting support, direct Maven or Ant integration. The only way to
-instuct Javainspect what to do is by using its Java API.
+JavaInspect can be used as a <a href="#org952985c">standalone commandline utility</a> as well as
+<a href="#orgc792989">java library</a>. JavaInspect uses primarily Java built-in reflection to
+discover and visualize any part of Java program.
</p>
<p>
-To get JavaInspect into same classpath with your projecs I so far came
-up with 2 solutions:
+JavaInspect currently has no graphical user interface, configuration
+files, embedded scripting support, direct Maven, Gradle or Ant
+integration. See <a href="#orgf9f5b99">usage</a> to learn how to instuct Javainspect what to do.
</p>
-<ol class="org-ol">
-<li>Add JavaInspect library in your project as a dependency.</li>
-<li>Create new Java project for the purpose visualizing your other
-projects and include JavaInspect and your projecs binary artifacts
-(Jar's) into new project classpath. Built binary Jar's (with no
-source code) are sufficient because JavaInspect operates via
-reflection.</li>
-</ol>
-
<p>
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
-bitmap graph in PNG format. By default on your Desktop directory.
+describes data to be visualized. Then launches <a href="https://graphviz.org/">GraphViz</a> to generate
+bitmap graph in PNG or SVG format.
</p>
<p>
-Note: GraphViz is developed and tested so far only on GNU Linux.
+Notes:
</p>
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>JavaInspect is developed and tested so far only on GNU/Linux.</li>
+</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline2" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="orgheadline2"><span class="section-number-2">2</span> Example graphs</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-2">
+<div id="outline-container-org3ca1849" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="org3ca1849"><span class="section-number-2">3.</span> Example graphs</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
<ul class="org-ul">
<li><p>
A very simple example:
</p>
-<div class="figure">
-<p><a href="example.png"><img src="example.resized.png" alt="example.resized.png" /></a>
+<div id="orgb13f634" class="figure">
+<p><a href="example.png"><img src="example-thumbnail.png" alt="example-thumbnail.png" /></a>
</p>
</div>
</p>
-<div class="figure">
+<div id="orgdad6849" class="figure">
<p><img src="legend.png" alt="legend.png" />
</p>
</div></li>
+</ul>
+
-<li>Example visualization of <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitbrowse/sixth/doc/">Sixth</a> project: <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth/codegraphs/">architecture graphs</a>.</li>
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/graphs/">See example produced graphs</a> for <a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Sixth 3D - 3D engine project</a>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline6" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="orgheadline6"><span class="section-number-2">3</span> Usage</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-3">
+<div id="outline-container-orga20e9d8" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="orga20e9d8"><span class="section-number-2">4.</span> Installation</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
+<p>
+<a href="http://www.graphviz.org/">GraphViz</a> - shall be installed on the computer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On Ubuntu/Debian GraphViz can be installed using:
+</p>
+<div class="org-src-container">
+<pre class="src src-sh">sudo apt-get install graphviz
+</pre>
+</div>
+
<p>
-Currently the only way to control JavaInspect is by using Java
-API. Simple Java based control/configuration code needs to be written
-for each project. I usually put such code into directories devoted for
+To use JavaInspect via Java API, no further installation is
+needed. JavaInspect will be embedded into your project as dependency.
+This is described in <a href="#orgc792989">usage via Java API</a>. It will expect GraphViz to be
+available in the system.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To use JavaInspect as a commandline tool, JavaInspect source
+repository has to be cloned locally: See <a href="#org1f40be1">Source code</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Then study and execute installation script:
+</p>
+<pre class="example">
+commandline launcher/install
+</pre>
+
+
+<p>
+After installation, new commandline tool should be available
+</p>
+<pre class="example">
+javainspect
+</pre>
+
+
+<p>
+Quick commandline usage help can be viewed by issuing
+</p>
+<pre class="example">
+javainspect --help
+</pre>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div id="outline-container-orgf9f5b99" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="orgf9f5b99"><span class="section-number-2">5.</span> Usage</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-5">
+<p>
+JavaInspect can be controlled in 2 different ways:
+</p>
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li><a href="#org952985c">as standalone commandline utility</a></li>
+<li><a href="#orgc792989">as embedded Java library via Java API</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+
+<div id="outline-container-org952985c" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="org952985c"><span class="section-number-3">5.1.</span> Usage as commandline utility</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-5-1">
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-org78673fb" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="org78673fb"><span class="section-number-4">5.1.1.</span> Available commandline arguments</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-5-1-1">
+<p class="verse">
+-j (existing files)…<br />
+    JAR file(s) to render.<br />
+<br />
+-c (existing directories)…<br />
+    Classpath directories<br />
+<br />
+-n (string)<br />
+    Graph name. (default: "graph")<br />
+<br />
+–debug<br />
+    Show debug info.<br />
+<br />
+-h, –help<br />
+    Show commandline usage help.<br />
+<br />
+-k<br />
+    Keep dot file.<br />
+<br />
+-ho<br />
+    Hide orphaned classes.<br />
+<br />
+-w (one to many strings)…<br />
+    Whitelist glob(s).<br />
+<br />
+-b (one to many strings)…<br />
+    Blacklist glob(s).<br />
+<br />
+-r (one to many strings)…<br />
+    root class(es).<br />
+<br />
+-d (existing directory)<br />
+    Target directory. Default is current directory.<br />
+<br />
+-t (options: png, svg)<br />
+    Target image type. Default is: svg.<br />
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div id="outline-container-orgbf7fb2b" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="orgbf7fb2b"><span class="section-number-4">5.1.2.</span> Specifying classes to render</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-5-1-2">
+<p>
+Normal Java application has immense complexity. In addition to code
+that was directly written by particular project developers, lots of
+functionality is typically added as frameworks or libraries to the
+project. In addition there is significant Java standard library.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Because JavaInspect uses reflection, it does not easily distinguish
+between those. In normal situation you would rather want to visualize
+only code that was developed specifically for your project and leave
+frameworks like Spring etc. out. If you visualize all classes that are
+possibly reachable from you project, you will easily get huge and
+incomprehensible graph.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+JavaInspect can digest compiled Java classes in 2 modes:
+</p>
+<ol class="org-ol">
+<li>Provide list of Jar files. Use <b>-j</b> option.</li>
+<li>Provide list of filesystem directories that can be used as
+classpath root. Use <b>-c</b> option.</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>
+Currently JavaInspect uses following algorithm to add classes to
+rendered graph:
+</p>
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>All classes that were found in Jar files are added to graph by default.</li>
+<li>None of the classes that were found in filesystem directories are
+added to the graph by default (unless explicitly referenced). (TODO:
+for consistency it would be better to add them too by default)</li>
+<li>If whitelist is specified (<b>-w</b> option) everything that is not
+matched by whitelist pattern(s) will be removed from the graph.</li>
+<li>If blacklist is specified (<b>-b</b> option) everything that is matched
+by blacklist pattern(s) will be removed from the graph.</li>
+<li>Root classes can be specified using <b>-r</b> option. Root classes will
+be added to the graph. JavaInspect will then try to recursively
+discover all classes that were referenced by root class and add
+those also to the graph.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div id="outline-container-orgc792989" class="outline-3">
+<h3 id="orgc792989"><span class="section-number-3">5.2.</span> Usage via Java API</h3>
+<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-5-2">
+<p>
+Requires that classes to be visualised are available in the classpath.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To get JavaInspect into same classpath with your projecs I so far came
+up with 2 solutions:
+</p>
+
+<ol class="org-ol">
+<li>Add JavaInspect library in your project as a dependency.</li>
+
+<li>Create new Java project for the purpose visualizing your other
+projects and include JavaInspect and your projecs binary artifacts
+(Jar's) into new project classpath. Built binary Jar's (with no
+source code) are sufficient because JavaInspect operates via
+reflection.</li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>
+Simple Java based control/configuration code needs to be written for
+each project. I usually put such code into directories devoted for
JUnit tests. Because it needs not to be compiled/embedded into final
product or project artifact I'm just willing to visualize.
</p>
<li>Create graph object.</li>
<li>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:
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Manually adding individual classes to the graph.</li>
-<li>and/or: Let GraphViz recursively scan and parse specified
-directories with Java source code files to discover class names.</li>
-<li>For every class added to the graph, GraphViz will recursively
-inspect it and add all referecned classes to the graph as well.</li>
-</ul></li>
+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.</li>
<li>Graphs easilly get very big and complex so optionally we filter
-important code using classname wildcards patterns based blacklist
-and/or whitelist.</li>
+important code using classname <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming)">glob</a> patterns based blacklist and/or
+whitelist.</li>
<li>Optionally we can tune some rendering parameters like:
<ul class="org-ul">
<li>Possibility to remove orphaned classes (classes with no
references) from the graph.</li>
<li>Specify target directory for generated visualization
-files. (Default is user desktop directory)</li>
+files. (Default is current directory)</li>
<li>Keep intermediate GraphViz dot file for later inspection.</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Render graph.</li>
</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline3" class="outline-3">
-<h3 id="orgheadline3"><span class="section-number-3">3.1</span> example 1: individually picked objects</h3>
-<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-3-1">
+<div id="outline-container-org68fe457" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="org68fe457"><span class="section-number-4">5.2.1.</span> Example 1: individually picked objects</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-5-2-1">
<p>
This example demonstrates generating of class graph from hand picked
classes and visualizing GraphViz itself.
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
+<pre class="src src-java">
+<span style="color: #8C8C8C;">// </span><span style="color: #8C8C8C;">Create graph</span>
+<span style="color: #F92672;">final</span> <span style="color: #66D9EF;">ClassGraph</span> <span style="color: #FD971F;">graph</span> = <span style="color: #F92672;">new</span> <span style="color: #66D9EF;">ClassGraph</span>();
-<pre class="src src-java"><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Create graph</span>
-<span style="color: #4f97d7; font-weight: bold;">final</span> <span style="color: #ce537a; font-weight: bold;">ClassGraph</span> <span style="color: #7590db;">graph</span> = <span style="color: #4f97d7; font-weight: bold;">new</span> <span style="color: #ce537a; font-weight: bold;">ClassGraph</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">()</span>;
+<span style="color: #8C8C8C;">// </span><span style="color: #8C8C8C;">Add some random object to the graph. GraphViz will detect Class from</span>
+<span style="color: #8C8C8C;">// </span><span style="color: #8C8C8C;">the object.</span>
+graph.add(graph);
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Add some random object to the graph. GraphViz will detect Class from</span>
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">the object.</span>
-graph.add<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span>graph<span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
+<span style="color: #8C8C8C;">// </span><span style="color: #8C8C8C;">Also add some random class to the graph.</span>
+graph.add(Utils.<span style="color: #F92672;">class</span>);
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Also add some random class to the graph.</span>
-graph.add<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span>Utils.<span style="color: #4f97d7; font-weight: bold;">class</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
+<span style="color: #8C8C8C;">// </span><span style="color: #8C8C8C;">Keep intermediary GraphViz DOT file for reference.</span>
+graph.setKeepDotFile(<span style="color: #FF80F4;">true</span>);
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Keep intermediary GraphViz DOT file for reference.</span>
-graph.setKeepDotFile<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span><span style="color: #a45bad;">true</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
+<span style="color: #8C8C8C;">// </span><span style="color: #8C8C8C;">Produce bitmap image titled "JavaInspect.png" to the user Desktop</span>
+<span style="color: #8C8C8C;">// </span><span style="color: #8C8C8C;">directory</span>
+graph.generateGraph(<span style="color: #EEDC82;">"JavaInspect"</span>);
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Produce bitmap image titled "JavaInspect.png" to the user Desktop</span>
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">directory</span>
-graph.generateGraph<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span><span style="color: #2d9574;">"JavaInspect"</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
</pre>
</div>
Note: if desired, more compact version of the above:
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
-
-<pre class="src src-java"><span style="color: #4f97d7; font-weight: bold;">new</span> <span style="color: #ce537a; font-weight: bold;">ClassGraph</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">()</span>.add<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span>randomObject, RandomClass.<span style="color: #4f97d7; font-weight: bold;">class</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>
- .setKeepDotFile<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span><span style="color: #a45bad;">true</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>.generateGraph<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span><span style="color: #2d9574;">"JavaInspect"</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
+<pre class="src src-java"><span style="color: #F92672;">new</span> <span style="color: #66D9EF;">ClassGraph</span>().add(randomObject, RandomClass.<span style="color: #F92672;">class</span>)
+ .setKeepDotFile(<span style="color: #FF80F4;">true</span>).generateGraph(<span style="color: #EEDC82;">"JavaInspect"</span>);
</pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline4" class="outline-3">
-<h3 id="orgheadline4"><span class="section-number-3">3.2</span> example 2: scan java code, apply filters</h3>
-<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-3-2">
-<div class="org-src-container">
-
-<pre class="src src-java"><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Create graph</span>
-<span style="color: #4f97d7; font-weight: bold;">final</span> <span style="color: #ce537a; font-weight: bold;">ClassGraph</span> <span style="color: #7590db;">graph</span> = <span style="color: #4f97d7; font-weight: bold;">new</span> <span style="color: #ce537a; font-weight: bold;">ClassGraph</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">()</span>;
-
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Recursively scan current directory for Java source code and attempt</span>
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">to detect class names from there to be added to the graph.</span>
-graph.addProject<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span><span style="color: #2d9574;">"."</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
-
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Blacklist example classes from being shown on the graph</span>
-graph.blacklistClassPattern<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span><span style="color: #2d9574;">"eu.svjatoslav.inspector.java.structure.example.*"</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
-
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">do not show single classes with no relationships on the graph</span>
-graph.hideOrphanedClasses<span style="color: #4f97d7;">()</span>;
-
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">Produce bitmap image titled "JavaInspect full project.png" to the</span>
-<span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">// </span><span style="color: #2aa1ae; background-color: #292e34;">user Desktop directory.</span>
-graph.generateGraph<span style="color: #4f97d7;">(</span><span style="color: #2d9574;">"JavaInspect full project"</span><span style="color: #4f97d7;">)</span>;
-</pre>
-</div>
-<p>
-Result:
-</p>
-<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>Generated PNG image: <a href="JavaInspect%20full%20project.png">JavaInspect full project.png</a></li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline5" class="outline-3">
-<h3 id="orgheadline5"><span class="section-number-3">3.3</span> example 3: GraphViz embedded in another project</h3>
-<div class="outline-text-3" id="text-3-3">
+<div id="outline-container-orge4c6237" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="orge4c6237"><span class="section-number-4">5.2.2.</span> Example 2: GraphViz embedded in another project</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-5-2-2">
<ol class="org-ol">
-<li>Download project Sixth <a href="http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">code snapshot</a>.</li>
-<li>Inspect and run *DataGraph.java*.</li>
+<li>Download project Sixth <a href="https://www2.svjatoslav.eu/gitweb/?p=sixth.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz">code snapshot</a>.</li>
+<li>Inspect and run <b>DataGraph.java</b>.</li>
</ol>
</div>
</div>
-</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline7" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="orgheadline7"><span class="section-number-2">4</span> Embedding JavaInspect in your Maven project</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-4">
+<div id="outline-container-org851b3a6" class="outline-4">
+<h4 id="org851b3a6"><span class="section-number-4">5.2.3.</span> Embedding JavaInspect in your Maven project</h4>
+<div class="outline-text-4" id="text-5-2-3">
<p>
Declare JavaInspect as dependency:
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
-
-<pre class="src src-xml"><<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">dependencies</span>>
+<pre class="src src-xml"><<span style="color: #A6E22E;">dependencies</span>>
...
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">dependency</span>>
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">groupId</span>>eu.svjatoslav</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">groupId</span>>
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">artifactId</span>>javainspect</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">artifactId</span>>
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">version</span>>1.5</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">version</span>>
- </<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">dependency</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">dependency</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">groupId</span>>eu.svjatoslav</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">groupId</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">artifactId</span>>javainspect</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">artifactId</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">version</span>>1.7</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">version</span>>
+ </<span style="color: #A6E22E;">dependency</span>>
...
-</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">dependencies</span>>
+</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">dependencies</span>>
</pre>
</div>
Add Maven repository to retrieve artifact from:
</p>
<div class="org-src-container">
-
-<pre class="src src-xml"><<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">repositories</span>>
+<pre class="src src-xml"><<span style="color: #A6E22E;">repositories</span>>
...
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">repository</span>>
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">id</span>>svjatoslav.eu</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">id</span>>
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">name</span>>Svjatoslav repository</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">name</span>>
- <<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">url</span>>http://www2.svjatoslav.eu/maven/</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">url</span>>
- </<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">repository</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">repository</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">id</span>>svjatoslav.eu</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">id</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">name</span>>Svjatoslav repository</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">name</span>>
+ <<span style="color: #A6E22E;">url</span>>http://www3.svjatoslav.eu/maven/</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">url</span>>
+ </<span style="color: #A6E22E;">repository</span>>
...
-</<span style="color: #bc6ec5; font-weight: bold;">repositories</span>>
+</<span style="color: #A6E22E;">repositories</span>>
</pre>
</div>
</div>
</div>
+</div>
+</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline8" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="orgheadline8"><span class="section-number-2">5</span> Requirements</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-5">
+<div id="outline-container-orgdb7d308" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="orgdb7d308"><span class="section-number-2">6.</span> TO DO</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-6">
<p>
-<a href="http://www.graphviz.org/">GraphViz</a> - shall be installed on the computer.
+Note: Because this is side project (and I have many of them) I can
+only contribute few hours per year at average. Any help is welcome. A
+LOT of cool ideas could be implemented. For intstance:
</p>
-<p>
-On Ubuntu/Debian use:
-</p>
-<div class="org-src-container">
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>BUG: Should not hide references if there are too many of them to
+classes if referring classes are not visible anyway because of
+blacklist/whitelist rules. Basically reference counting should
+exclude not visible classes.</li>
-<pre class="src src-sh">sudo apt-get install graphviz
-</pre>
-</div>
+<li>BUG: Orphaned class removal does not work always. There are many
+bugs and corner cases to find and fix still.</li>
+
+<li>BUG: Code is not very readable. Document and refactor for better
+maintainability.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Create installable DEB package.
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Submit it to some Debian developer for integration or become
+Debian package maintainer.</li>
+</ul></li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Make it modular. That is: central part, an application
+model could be standalone and serializable.
+
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>There could be multiple ways to acquire model:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>By introspecting application via Java reflections (current mode
+of operation).</li>
+<li>By parsing java source. (unfinished)</li>
+</ul></li>
+
+<li>There could be ways to manipulate model:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>Store/load/compare.</li>
+<li>Trim uninteresting parts.</li>
+<li>Highlight important parts.</li>
+</ul></li>
+
+<li>There could be multiple ways to render model:
+<ul class="org-ul">
+<li>PNG/SVG (currently implemented)</li>
+<li>PlantUML (TODO)</li>
+<li>Interactive 3D visualization (TODO)</li>
+</ul></li>
+</ul></li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Implement (or integrate existing java parser
+<a href="https://javaparser.org/">https://javaparser.org/</a>) to be able to produce code visualizations
+based on source code (in addition to current reflection based
+approach).</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Integarte with <a href="http://plantuml.com/class-diagram">PlantUML</a>.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Add dark theme for generated graphs.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Sort Class fields by alphabet.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Visualize also concrete field values so it could be used as
+ultra cool runtime logging/debugging framework.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Possibility to visualize structure and data from JVM
+snapshot.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Possibility to attach to remote process to visualize
+data/structure using JVM debug port and mechanism.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Possibility to attach to JVM using JVM agent.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Possibility to inspect graphs in 3D using <a href="https://www3.svjatoslav.eu/projects/sixth-3d/">Sixth 3D engine</a>.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Possibility to select classes/fields/values to be
+visualized in some graph query language. For greater flexibility in
+comparison to currently supported glob syntax.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Add option to control JavaInspect via JSON or XML config
+file. For example different graphs for given project could be
+defined once in plain text config, possibly with the aid of some
+interactive utility. Then defined graphs could be updated as part of
+project build or release process.</li>
+
+<li>FEATURE: Configurable maven plugin to generate graphs as part of the
+project build/release process.</li>
+</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div id="outline-container-orgheadline9" class="outline-2">
-<h2 id="orgheadline9"><span class="section-number-2">6</span> TO DO</h2>
-<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-6">
+<div id="outline-container-org30b046f" class="outline-2">
+<h2 id="org30b046f"><span class="section-number-2">7.</span> See also</h2>
+<div class="outline-text-2" id="text-7">
+<p>
+Similar or alternative solutions:
+</p>
<ul class="org-ul">
-<li>BUG: Should not hide references if there are too many of them to classes if
-referring classes are not visible anyway because of blacklist/whitelist rules.
-Basically reference counting should exclude not visible classes.</li>
-<li>FEATURE: add dark theme</li>
-<li>FEATURE: sort Class fields by alphabet</li>
-<li>FEATURE: visualize also concrete field values so it could be used as
-ultra cool runtime logging framework</li>
-<li>FEATURE: possibility to visualize structure and data from JVM
-snapshot</li>
-<li>FEATURE: possibility to attach to remote process to visualize
-data/structure using JVM debug port and mechanism.</li>
-<li>FEATURE: possibility to attach to JVM using JVM agent</li>
-<li>FEATURE: possibility to script javainspect behavior</li>
-<li>FEATURE: possibility to select classes/fields/values to be
-visualized in SQL like syntax</li>
-<li>FEATURE: configurable maven plugin to generate graphs as part of the
-project build/release process</li>
+<li><a href="http://www.class-visualizer.net/">http://www.class-visualizer.net/</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://github.com/pahen/madge">Madge - similar tool for JavaScript</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="postamble" class="status">
<p class="author">Author: Svjatoslav Agejenko</p>
-<p class="date">Created: 2016-11-09 Wed 12:09</p>
-<p class="validation"><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Validate</a></p>
+<p class="date">Created: 2022-07-13 Wed 04:26</p>
+<p class="validation"><a href="https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer">Validate</a></p>
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