Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition

Release 5.0.0

Overview

Tom Sawyer Perspectives introduces HTML5 rendering for web-based applications. In addition, Tom Sawyer Perspectives provides new rule-driven Google Maps web views. This release also adds new One-Line diagrams in support of electric utilities and electrical smart grid companies. Rendering and animation performance have been improved.

New

Technology

• Apple Mac OS X full screen support

Views

• Maps
  • Rule-driven Google Maps views
• Drawings
  • Drawing persistence
  • HTML5 Link Navigator tool

Industry Examples

• Banking
• Acquisitions
• Company Infrastructure
  • Maps
• Electric Utilites
  • One-line Diagrams
• Networking
  • Cable Schematics
  • Traceroute

Improvements

Installation

• Combined installer

Views

• Drawings
  • Improved rendering performance
    • For small objects at low resolutions
    • With level-of-detail transitions
  • Improved view synchronization animation
  • Improved animation in the Swing drawing view
  • Zoom + and Zoom - tools support zoom animation preferences
  • Precise shape clipping ignores node shadows
• Trees
  • Animated web-based tree views
  • Improved tooltip rendering on Apple Mac OS X
• Table
  • Web-based tables can now be sorted by attribute
  • Column headers are visible while scrolling

Layout

• Improved edge distribution at node sides
• More regular and compact packing of components and disconnected nodes
• Five percent faster performance than prior version

Printing

• Improved print preview window size for a variety of browsers

Industry Examples

• Big Data
  • Time analysis project uses multi-threaded background image loading
• Social Networking
  • Governance web-based tree views offer new statistics and centrality result rendering

System Requirements

• Added support for GWT 2.5
• Dropped support for GWT 2.4
• These operating systems have been added:
  • Microsoft Windows 8
  • Oracle Linux
  • SUSE Linux 11
• These application servers have been added:
  • Oracle WebLogic Server 12c
  • Red Hat JBoss 7.0 and 7.1
• Dropped support for Red Hat JBoss 5.1
• Added support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 10

Issues

• Apple Launchpad support is temporarily missing.