Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition

Release 1.0.0

Overview

This release introduces Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition, a next generation product that enables you to develop strategic corporate applications that reveal patterns, relationships, and dependencies in your data in an unprecedented way. Built on top of Tom Sawyer's reliable graph visualization and layout component products, Tom Sawyer Perspectives utilizes graphical application design methods to help you construct applications in a fraction of the time usually required.

Tom Sawyer Perspectives provides an intuitive yet powerful graphical environment to configure round-trip data integration and create simultaneous and synchronized, rule-driven views of data. The Tom Sawyer Perspectives Project Designer is used to configure applications to automatically connect to data sources including databases, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, plain text files, and XML files. The Project Designer also displays numerous simultaneous views of data from different perspectives including drawings, inspectors, trees, and tables. Users may also commit edits back to the data source through the different views. As a result, time-consuming, manual programming efforts are drastically minimized.

Tom Sawyer Perspectives is designed for data analysts, architecture teams, and IT and IS organizations.

New

• Microsoft Excel, JDBC-compliant database, text, and XML data integrators that link directly to your data sources
• Graph drawing, tree, table, and inspector views to view your data from different perspectives
• Filters to define the part of your model to use by the integrators and views
• The Designer, a graphical development tool to define the schema, add integrators, views, and filters