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Tom Sawyer Software Releases New Pure Java Layout Software

Tom Sawyer Layout, Version 6.0, Java Edition, Brings Advanced Layout Technology to All Java Development Communities

Oakland, CA, June 2, 2004—Tom Sawyer^® Software, a leading provider of high-performance graph visualization, layout, and analysis solutions, today released Tom Sawyer Layout, Version 6.0, Java Edition. This new software, written in 100% pure Java, brings Tom Sawyer's high-quality and portable layout technology to all Java development communities including Sun Swing and Eclipse SWT developers.

Tom Sawyer Layout, Java Edition, is a versatile set of Java classes and APIs that enable users to organize and lay out relational data, producing exceptionally clear diagrams that reveal hidden relationships and underlying structures. Tom Sawyer Layout, Java Edition, is a portable and flexible software library that can be integrated with your own database, display, and graphics systems. Whether you are developing Sun Swing, Eclipse SWT, or thin client applications, you can benefit because of its superb layout functionalities.

The new software offers both XML and API integration. The XML file format allows exchanging and integrating data between Tom Sawyer products and your applications quickly and easily. The XML file format supports incremental data loading which brings benefits to applications that deal with large data sets.

Further, Tom Sawyer Layout can be easily installed and configured for use in a web service, on a server, or in a client application, providing seamless integration with your preferred software architecture.

"Tom Sawyer Software is pleased to offer its highly regarded layout technology to a larger audience. Now Sun Swing, Eclipse SWT, and thin client application developers can readily make use of Tom Sawyer Layout technology in their preferred configuration", said Brendan P. Madden, Chief Executive Officer of Tom Sawyer Software. "Further, we know that many of our customers have worked successfully with our software for years, and have come to appreciate the benefits that only specialization and long commercial experience can bring."

Product Features

Tom Sawyer Layout, Version 6.0, Java Edition, offers the following comprehensive features:

System

• Flexible component architecture
• Ease of integration
• XML integration
• Extensive customizability
• Various development environments

• Advanced in-memory relational model
• Efficient iteration facilities

• Node shapes
• Edge routes
• Connectors
• Labels for nodes, edges, and connectors
• Drill down capabilities
• Cross-diagram linking

• Variety of layout styles
• Scalable layout
• Incremental layout
• Nested layout
• Constraint-based layout
• Labeling
• Routing
• Orthogonal routing
• Hierarchical polyline routing

About Tom Sawyer Software

Tom Sawyer Software is the leading provider of software and services that enable organizations to build highly scalable and flexible graph and data visualization and analysis applications. These applications are used to discover hidden patterns, complex relationships, and key trends in large and diverse datasets. Tom Sawyer Software serves clients with needs in link analysis; network topology; architectures and models; schematics and maps; and dependencies, flows, and processes. We help clients federate and integrate their data from multiple sources and build the graph and data visualization applications that are critical to analyzing and gaining insight into their data.