Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition

Release 5.0.0

DateFebruary 28, 2013
StatusGeneral

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.