Data Visualization Software | Tom Sawyer Visualization, JSP Edition

When integrated into your application, Tom Sawyer Visualization enables users to view data relationships in drawings that they can interact with.

Press

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Demonstration

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Release Notes

Review the release notes to see the latest features and enhancements that have been added to Tom Sawyer Visualization, JSP Edition.

Evaluation

Request an evaluation to build a proof of concept application. The evaluation software comes complete with product documentation, tutorials, source code examples, technical support, and the complete source code for the demonstration application.

Features

Add immediate value to your application by incorporating these robust features:

Server Side

Technology

32-bit support
64-bit support
JDK 5.0 and 6.0
JSP 2.0 and 2.1
100% Pure Java components
JSP tags to embed display components
Internationalizable
Compatible with JSF applications
Compatible with Tom Sawyer Analysis
Unified service design for layout and analysis

Drawings

Graph-based data model
Batch processing APIs
Efficient iteration
Nodes with polygon shapes
Edges with routes
Nodes with connectors
Nested drawings
Attach properties to drawing elements
Event system
XML read and write

Graphics

Customizable UI types
Bitmap and vector images
Data-driven graphics
Rule-driven graphics
Level-of-detail graphics
Scene-based graphics
Drawing backgrounds
Node borders, colors, images, and text
Edge line thickness, colors, and styles
Arrowhead styles
Connector graphics
HTML-formatted tooltips
Multi-line tooltips
Multi-line text fields
Web page linking
Configure context menus
Configure cursors

Layout

Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Multi-threaded layout
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Partial nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing
Drawing fitting

Indicates the newest features.

Client Side

Technology

AJAX architecture
Extensible JavaScript library
Non-blocking asynchronous updates

Documentation

HTML format with content tabs
Global search capability
Practical, in-depth tutorials
Design, development, and deployment guides
Detailed API references

Display Components

Multiple drawings per web page
Drawing overview
Drawing element property inspector
Overlay pan and zoom control
Preconfigured canvas dimensions

Rendering

High-speed display
Image-mapped graphics
Image hot spots
Minimum invalid region refresh

Printing

Print setup
Print preview
Multi-page printing

User Interactions

Tools and commands
Hit testing
Automatic scroll
Standard selection
Marquee selection
Pan
Marquee zoom
Fit in canvas
Change cursors
Show tooltips
Show context menus

Complexity Management

Drill down
Drill up
Expand
Collapse
Nest
Fold
Hide

Diagramming

Undo and redo
Add, delete, and move

Layout

Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Multi-threaded layout
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Partial nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing
Layout progress
Layout cancel

Tiering

Tom Sawyer Visualization is now available in tiered pricing categories. Tiering allows you to purchase individually priced sets of features and capabilities for your application. Over an application lifecycle, you may choose to expand the scope to include more robust features of Tom Sawyer Visualization.

Features	First Tier	Second Tier	Third Tier
Two layout styles
All layout styles
Global layout
Incremental layout
Constraint-based layout
Edge routing
Global labeling
Viewing tools group 1
Viewing tools group 2
Editing tools group
Printing tools group 1
Printing tools group 2
Drill down
Nesting
Hiding and folding

Customer chooses preferred layout styles at the time of purchase.

See Definitions.

Definitions

Layout Styles

Viewing Tools

Editing Tools

Printing

Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout

Group 1

Select
Pan
Marquee zoom

Group 2

Overview image
Property viewing

Add
Delete
Move

Group 1

Single page printing
Print preview

Group 2

Multipage printing

System Requirements

Tom Sawyer Visualization supports both 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems. It also requires Java Server Pages (JSP) 2.0.

Operating System	Architecture	JDK
Apple Mac OS X 10.6 Apple Mac OS X 10.7	Intel Intel	6.0 6.0
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Intel-compatible	6.0 and 7.0 6.0 and 7.0 6.0 and 7.0 6.0 and 7.0 6.0 and 7.0 6.0 and 7.0
Oracle Solaris 10	SPARC	6.0 and 7.0

Server Environments

Tom Sawyer Visualization can deploy a JSP application with these application servers:

Apache Tomcat 5.5 and 6.0
IBM WebSphere 6.1 and 7.0
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g
Red Hat JBoss 5.0 and 5.1

Tom Sawyer Visualization should work with other platforms that support JSP 2.0 and 2.1.

Client Environments

Tom Sawyer Visualization supports these browsers:

Apple Safari 5.0 and 5.1
Google Chrome
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, and 9.0
Mozilla Firefox