Re: [Fwd: [TM4J-users] TM4J and Software Architecture (3-tier)]

[Andreas F. <And...@gm...>]

Hi Harald,

thanks a lot for your answer. I really appreciate it (same goes for Bret´s
and everybody else´s help), as i really feel like stepping in the dark a
little bit at the moment.

Thanks also for your inspiration on the software architecture. Another
question, as you mentioned MVC.
How do you think Panckoucke works together with this pattern?

Could this be right:

Model: The abstract model which is generated through Panckoucke
View: The specific renderer e.g. Touchgraph
Controller: Panckoucke itself (a little bit imprecise)



> Are you allowed to tell us what you want to do / what kind of data you
> want to display and in which way ?

For sure, i want to display the relationships between Software Tools (the
files they create), which are used in order to get a certain work done.
For example, one first uses Word for writing the concept of a certain
problem, the produced Word File is then used as an "input" for a UML drawing
diagramm, like Rational Rose for example, this Rational Rose document is
then used for "input" for the generation of java files. So this whole
process makes up "links" between all of this software tools and i want to
display those links and the corresponding software tools as an graph within
an eclipse plugin.
The information for those links is already within a database, so i just need
to transform them into a Topic Map and then feed this Topic Map to
Panckouke.

One thing that´s bugging me all the time and where i would really appreciate
an answer:
Do you think it makes sense, to transform the Network Data, that is within
the Database at the moment into a Topic Map before i represent it as a
Graph? Or do you think it might be more useful to directly produce the input
file for a specific graph like Touchgraph for example.

My point is, that i need a strong querying possibility for the data. This
means a user should be able to query the graph something like this:

"Show me all Files which are are linked together, with the creation date of
those files being less than two days difference"

I don´t know at the moment, whether Tolog can handle such a complex request
(given that all of the needed data, like "creation date" is provided). And
if Tolog is not capable of not handling it, i would therefore need to query
the data on the Database via SQL anyway...

hmm... any ideas/thoughts on this? (i know it´s kind of off topic ;-) )


Hmm, Harald do you think it is possible to tell me a little bit more about
the TMNav Eclipse plugin? I really don´t know where to start at the moment.
What i need is also a tree view of the data... do you think this is possible
within Eclipse?

I always dreamed about incorporating the Hypergarph into Eclipse, but
thought of it as being quite tricky. And i only saw one other application
(Metrics on Sourceforge), which implemented the Touchgraph as part of an
Eclipse plugin.

Sorry for the long answers, and the wide range of topics (and questions ;-)
) i addressed within this e-mail but you´re really the only people i can
turn to with my problems as nobody i know has a clue about all of this ;-)

greetings and a nice evening to all of you
Andreas






> > Greeting to all
> > Andreas
> > 
> 
> Cheers
> Harald
> 
> P.S. Bret, could i have a copy of your app too please ? :)
> 
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