How to display flowcharts dynamically in java?

Question

I want to develop a java desktop application that takes some inputs from the user and store it in a database. After that, when user clicks on a button (say display) it displays the information, entered by him earlier, in a flowchart like format.

Can I display that information in the form of flowcharts?

Answer 1

You can try out JGraph

Answer 2

You also could look at yWorks ( http://www.yworks.com/en/index.html ), another graphing library for java and .net (but a $$$ commercial product).

I like prefuse ( http://prefuse.org/ ) for graphs, even they stopped active development for the java lib a while ago, but you might need to do more coding with it to get a flowchart implementation.

Answer 3

You can use a drawing library for that. For example JFDraw.

Answer 4

You might want to take a look at yEd. It stores drawings in XML format that can be very easily emulated based on your data. We've used this approach in the past and it worked like a treat.

If you need the same functionality on the back-end, just take a look at their yFiles library.