Archive for the ‘Development practices’ Category

Drilling Down Into Gantt Filter Models - Part I

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

In this article, I will take you on a tour of the filter data models that are provided with ILOG JViews Gantt. Then we will go deeper as I show how to implement a filter model that provides data drill-down…

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Shed shadows into the light!

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Shadowed Graphic ObjectsLet’s shed light into the shadows of how to implement shadows in the light of the ILOG JViews Graphic Framework. Some graphic objects have built-in shadows, for instance IlvShadowRectangle and IlvShadowLabel. Shadows can also be implemented by creating symbols in…

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Fast text with less memory

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Light Text SampleText occurs in every diagramming application, for instance as labels on nodes and links. In JViews, you have the choice between IlvZoomableLabel and IlvText; IlvZoomableLabel is more a text picture that allows fancy gradient paints inside the glyphs while the…

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JViews Shines through on Eclipse

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Eclipse is an important platform for many of ILOG’s customers, and we have been working to ensure that the ILOG JViews products work well with it. Specifically, some of our customer use the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (or RCP) as an…

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Unit testing memory leaks

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Memory leaks are often tricky to debug. In complex situations, advanced tools such as memory profilers are needed. But what about unit testing potential memory leaks? Ever wondered how to write, say, a JUnit test to check for memory leaks…

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