[Jung-support] Networking Toolkit: JUNG 1.2 Released

[Danyel F. <da...@ac...>]

Thanks for your continued interest in JUNG. We're proud to announce the 
release of JUNG 1.2.

We have a number of sample applets that run in your browser and show off 
various features of the JUNG system at
http://jung.sourceforge.net/examples.html

(Check out, in particular, the "Bipartite Graph Applet"--it's a 
visualization of Davis/Gardner/Gardner's Southern Women dataset.)

JUNG now features:

* File I/O support
	ascii matrices
	GraphML
	and some Pajek files
* More layout algorithms:
	Fruchterman-Rheingold
	Kamada-Kawai
	an Eades-like spring embedder
	self-organizing maps
	directed acyclic graphs
* Built-in support for hypergraphs
* A graph event infrastructure can notify algorithms when the graph changes
* Random graph generation
	Barabasi-Albert
	Lattice1D- and Lattice2DGenerator
	ErdosRenyi
	SimpleRandom

We've also included a preview of an upcoming visualization toolkit that 
answers a lot of past requests for features. Check it out in the 
samples/ directory of the download.

http://jung.sourceforge.net

JUNG is a free, open-source programming framework for implementing graph
and social network solutions in Java. It is intended for programmers who
are interested in being able to programatically manipulate graphs, by
iterating commands on them, dynamically modifying them, and visualizing
the results. While the JUNG framework provides many algorithms and tools
for graphs, it allows many other possible uses, and allows you to add
your own algorithms.

JUNG has been successfully used...
... to create visual applets
... to read data from JDBC (database) connections
... to handle social network datasets, including very large (100,000
plus nodes) ones
... to write out data that can be read by PAJEK and UCINET
... for stastical analyses, network measures, and visualizations

We invite you to try out JUNG, and to let us know whether you find it
helpful. We are also looking to expand our body of code and alogrithms,
and would be delighted to have your contributions.

http://jung.sourceforge.net

Danyel Fisher
on behalf of the JUNG Development Team