Rudimentary Network Visualisation?

Pelvis

I'm creating a distributed hash table in java, and I'd like to visualize the network in some way. For instance, arrange the nodes around a circle in order of their ID, with the ability to click on a node to see its attributes, such as it's routing table and any data it's responsible for, and perform operations on that node's behalf, such as inserting data into the network or retrieving data by it's key.

I'm not looking for anything crazy sophisticated, just a simple way to demo the workings of the DHT. But not really sure where to start, should it be browser based, or should I use java swing? How do I make a circle and put nodes on it! Not a clue.

Pelvis

Would SVG or Canvas be the way to go here?

rgodard80a

Definitely not java swing, which has been replaced by JavaFX.

There's plenty of Javascript graphing libraries, eg.

https://d3js.org/
https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Gallery

14ned

Pelvis wrote: »

I'm not looking for anything crazy sophisticated, just a simple way to demo the workings of the DHT. But not really sure where to start, should it be browser based, or should I use java swing? How do I make a circle and put nodes on it! Not a clue.

Isn't GraphML quite literally what you want?

http://visjs.org/ will render you graphs in a browser.

Niall

Dubba

Another option to consider is Neo4j:

https://neo4j.com/developer/cypher-query-language/

rgodard80a

Dubba wrote: »

Another option to consider is Neo4j:

https://neo4j.com/developer/cypher-query-language/

That's a graph database, not a graph renderer.

I haven't tried it but http://js.cytoscape.org/#demos is another Javascript graph renderer.

I've written my own java disassembler from scratch and in the near future will be looking at ways to visualise and explore existing Java code, likely through some web JS library like those I've mentioned.

Dubba

rgodard80a wrote: »

That's a graph database, not a graph renderer.

Ok, but there is an in the browser sandbox:

https://neo4j.com/sandbox-v2/#

I only mention Neo4j because I used it in college and it seemed somewhat related to the OP's post.