Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
Open-jACOB Draw2D
Open-jACOB Draw2D is a JavaScript library that allows you to create drawings and diagrams.
The User interface allows interactive drawing by using your standard browser.
No additional software; no third party plug ins. Just run it and use it.
Open-jACOB Draw2D is the graph component of the Open-jACOB online
Workflow editor. The purpose of this experiment is to see if a Visio-type workflow
editor tool could be developed in a web browser – It is possible.
Check out an interactive demo.
4.5 rating from 31 votes
I wish it could be used for some sort of workflow frontend…
Very nice,
With the same spirit we provide Rialto Studio that is a WYSIWYG tool (http://rialto.application-servers.com/wiki/rialtostudio) to help building rialto GUI.
Cyril Balit
Co-developer of the Rialto framework
This is the best AJAX 2D canvas and workflow editor I’ve seen. Very responsive even on crappy hardware and old browsers. Well done!
Hi,
we are currently in the startup phase of the Draw2D component of jACOB.
Weekly updates will be follow!!
We have a running prototype of our workflow editor (with backend!) for the
jACOB engine.Example application are ready in the next days.
greetings
Andreas Herz
absolute cool.
…good guys – work harder. I want more!
Thanks
A Fan
i’ve tried the same thing before – server side drawing, but i never finish it as there are alway a lot works to do. cheer! :)
Hi,
absolute cool!
Feature request: Examples of the server side handling? :-)
greetings
Thomas
Here is another interesting product: http://www.mxgraph.com (free for non-commercial use).
HTH,
Gaudenz
in deed – mxGraph is much better than Draw2D!
…but not open source.
greetings
Andreas Herz
This is very cool. I was wondering why you choose to implement your 2D graphics with html instead of canvas or SVG? With IECanvas, canvas is pretty cross-browser compliant isn’t it?
Also, what license is used for this?
There is a few drawing applications out there, I get very excited to see new ones because I think their potential and role will be important in the future. Though most people say, “neat” and just walk away because there’s no real immediate use unless you’re in some sort of architecture or space planning industry….at which point you have better software and no need to really work from or through a web browser. To touch on some questions here that Kris brought up – SVG. SVG is great and I do hope it grows and becomes more compliant…however, that’s the problem. It’s not 100% cross-browser/platform compliant. There were some issues with it and Firefox before…but I believe they are fixed now. I think some other browsers have issues with SVG+Javascript as well. Here’s an open source whiteboard done with SVG and uses CGI. I don’t know about IECansvas, but I do know SVG had/s it’s issues between browsers.
Hi,
Why I’m using DHTML and not canvas/IECanvas
1. I have no know who about SVG/canvas
2. I have not time to learn yet another technologie (at the moment).
3. It should be possible that a “normal” developer can extend Draw2D.
4. I need normal HTML Form elements in my diagrams.
5. The current HTML implementation is faster than the SVG stuff (exception is mxGraph!).
6. It should be possible to change the UI via CSS (Draw2D app and host app should have the same look)
7. I want use Draw2D to layout UI elements of an CMS page via drag&drop too.
greetings
Andreas
Hi,
Open-jACOB has released a Ajax Draw2D Workflow demo application
called “jacob.blooper”. A workflow based bugtracker.
http://www.openjacob.org
(Demo => jacob.blooper)
greetings
Andreas
This is exactly what annoys me about open source software, the suggestion that it being open source makes up for the fact it’s completely useless.
Draw2D + Yahoo UI Integration
http://www.openjacob.org/draw2d/single/YahooUI_integration/index.html
greetings
FreeGroup
Hi,
new kind of Open-jACOB Applicaion available.
– Online Database editing
– Online WYSIWYG Form Editor
– Vision like Workflow Editor
– …
http://www.verside.org
Greetings
Andreas