Java Dependency Viewer 1.1
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Java Dependency Viewer 1.1
This version of the tool has two serious weaknesses that make it impossible to use effectively.
One weakness is that the menu actions ("View class dependency" and "View package dependency") are executed in the eclipse UI thread. The workspace hangs for several minutes until the results have been calculated - or until it crashes because the heap has been exhausted, which just now happened as I was writing these comments.
Another weakness is that the initial layout algorithm chosen seems to be "show all nodes jumbled together". The user gets one layout, and that's it.
This tool is a *viewer*. Its usefulness depends entirely on whether it helps the user to find some presentation for hist graph that he can interpret. It is not enough to show just any layout and leave the user with no options to continue.