Visualizing Flow Diagrams in WebSphere Studio Using SHriMP Views

Derek Rayside (), Marin Litoiu (), Margaret-Anne Storey (), Casey Best () and Robert Lintern ()
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Derek Rayside: IBM Centre for Advanced Studies
Marin Litoiu: IBM Centre for Advanced Studies
Margaret-Anne Storey: University of Victoria
Casey Best: University of Victoria
Robert Lintern: University of Victoria

Information Systems Frontiers, 2003, vol. 5, issue 2, No 5, 174 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper describes the integration of an information visualization tool, called SHriMP Views, with IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, which was developed with Eclipse technology. Although SHriMP was originally developed for visualizing programs, it is content-independent. We have re-targeted SHriMP for visualizing flow diagrams. Flow diagrams, as supported by WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition, can be hierarchically composed, thus leveraging the key features of SHriMP that allow a user to easily navigate hierarchically composed information spaces. We discuss the differences between programs and flow diagrams, in terms of their semantics and their visual representation. We also report on the main technical challenges we faced, due to the different widget sets used by SHriMP (Swing/AWT) and Eclipse (SWT).

Keywords: integration; software engineering; software visualization; system modeling; flow diagrams; MOF; XMI (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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