Re: JAnalyzer

[Manu Sridharan <manu_s@eecs.berkeley.edu>]

A possible start for creating the clickable dot graph in Eclipse is
Grappa, also from the AT&T Graphviz project:

http://www.research.att.com/~john/Grappa/

It renders a graph laid out by dot in a Swing widget using Java2D, with
context menus on nodes and everything; it's really nice.  One would have
to get rid of the Swing, but it looks like there may be support for
Java2D in Eclipse:

http://www.holongate.org/j2d/index.html

Might not be too much work to get this all going...too bad I won't have
time to do it for a while.

-Manu

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 10:23, Ondrej LHOTAK wrote:
> In Soot 2.0, we're adding LinkTags. These can be attached to any
> statement, and are links to some other statement, possibly in another
> class. In Eclipse, you can click on them to go to the target statement.
> Our first use of the tags will be for call graph information, so that
> will give similar functionality to what you have in Janalyzer.
> 
> I had a look at Janalyzer, and one thing that I really liked was the
> star-shaped graphical call graph browser (I don't know how best to
> describe it, but hopefully you know what I mean). I think something like
> this would be nice in Eclipse, and we don't currently have anything
> like this. So, if you're planning to integrate something like that into
> Eclipse, I think it would be very useful.
> 
> One of the other things that we've talked about is getting a control
> flow graph representation into Eclipse. Soot has some code to dump out
> a CFG as input to the "dot" graph drawing tool, which then draws the
> graph. We generally use dot to produce postscript, but it seems Eclipse
> doesn't support that; however, dot has various other output formats
> that might be more suitable. If someone were to implement support for
> displaying (possible clickable) arbitrary dot graphs in Eclipse, I think
> that would be very useful. It could be used for a variety of things,
> including both call graphs and control flow graphs.
> 
> Ondrej
> 
> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 03:30:32PM +0100, Eric Bodden wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Just wanted to tell you that we have released our static analysis tool
> > Janalyzer, which we developed using SOOT as a university project. The
> > program is still being developed further at Sourceforge but however we
> > have released a first stable version.
> > Suggestions are always welcome as well as volunteers to help with
> > further coding. We also thought about integrating that into an IDE like
> > Eclipse. Now I got to know that SOOT already is being integrated there.
> > What do you think - would it be worthwhile adding graph display like we
> > provide it in our tool?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Eric
> > 
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