Project re-started

Getting JDecisiontable feature-complete so far I'm free to can spend time working on other projects. What a fun to have something done! (I will still care about and answer on emails.)

Bifurcum will be a GUI for BifurcumLib which will be library to traverse graphs like UML and EPCs. Unlike it's competitors it will use a very simple algorithm which can be done using merely a piece of paper. If this algorithm gives you an unexpected result you should check your graph. Did you really draw what you mean? Probably not.

I write this tool with 4-years experience of writing an non-free tool for this purpose. This tool has nothing to do with Bifurcum. The algorithm Bifurcum uses is much simpler and very different since it does not use or build valid decision tables.

Unfourtunately the said non-free tool failed on market. It was not buggy. I wrote it as employee of a small company with focus on software test - my boss was looking at me. I learned a lot from him. The reason for fail was that it gave unexpected results (from the view of our customers). Examining the results we found everytime that the graph wasn't draw as it should to express the desired process. But our customers blamed the tool.

As "lessons learned" I will implement merely a very simple algorithm (a modification of the BFS algorithm). It is already well documented in the docs folder of project BifurcumLib.

Some people might wonder about I code in Python. I don't abandon programming Java but I try something different, obviously. How Oracle ruins my business :-( should tell the reason.

In brief: To spread JDecisiontable (written in Java) I need people employed at companies like assurances, banks or logistics who try my tool at home and then introduce it at work. But since a browser plugin shipped with Java was found to be vulnerabel which was already exploited in the wild people around me uninstalled Java or said they won't install it.

I didn't found a package to install Java on Windows(R) without the plugins. As long said plugins are not deleted uncertainity will remain and nobody is going to install Java at home. There is no much hope that Oracle will banish both plugins: Installing the last update on 2012-02-18 there was still the Ask toolbar offered yelling it is freeware ("KOSTENLOS") in red uppercase letters.

By the way, said non-free tool I wrote years ago was written in Perl5. Also a language which seems ruined but for other reasons.

Bifurcum is licensed under terms and conditions of GPL3. I did not change my mind about software licenses: Bifurcum is just meant as commercial software as PyQt. The Apache License 2.0 is still great!

Last but not least I migrated from git to mercurial (seems easier to use) and I'm using Eclipse 3.8.1 with PyDev plugin for Python development since Netbeans doesn't support Python. This is something you should know about PyDev an Qt!