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Mission

The goal of the GEF project is to build a graph editing library that can be used to construct many, high-quality graph editing applications. Some of GEF's features are:

• A simple, concrete design that makes the framework easy to understand and extend.
• Node-Port-Edge graph model that is powerful enough for the vast majority of connected graph applications.
• Model-View-Controller design based on the Swing Java UI library makes GEF able to act as a UI to existing data structures, and also minimizing learning time for developers familiar with Swing.
• High-quality user interactions for moving, resizing, reshaping, etc. GEF also supports several novel interactions such as the broom alignment tool and selection-action-buttons.
• Generic properties sheet based on JavaBeans introspection.
• XML-based file formats based on the PGML standard (soon to support SVG).

Downloads Version 0.12.3 is the latest release download here Product Download current and past releases. Vision: A diagram editing framework Statement of JRE support policy Features: Editing, views, modes, etc. [outdated] Tours: Sample screen-shots Documentation Public API (JavaDoc) Installation Getting started Logger Configuration GEF design presentation w/ CRC cards (this has not been updated from v0.5 yet) Cookbook (this has not been updated from v0.5 yet) Process Members: The people behind GEF Join: How to get involved Open issues: Help enhance GEF by working on these

Screenshot This is BasicApplication, a demo built with GEF. You can build your own application using the GEF library.