Welcome to ILOG JViews Gantt!

Planning and scheduling applications often require Gantt chart (timeline) displays to view, edit, and monitor the status of the resources, tasks, and activities in the underlying application. These types of displays are required in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, transportation, and project management. These displays may need to support a variety of cross-sectional Gantt views, be fully flexible, and work in both a traditional Java and a thin-client environment. ILOG JViews Gantt is ideally suited to meet these requirements.

ILOG JViews Gantt combines a rapid application development tool for quickly configuring a Gantt chart display, with a comprehensive Software Development Kit (SDK) for providing specialized functionality. Developers using JViews Gantt to put together their displays will typically start with Designer, a point-and-click editor that defines most aspects of the look-and-feel. The output of Designer is a project file that is loaded into the application at runtime. If further fine tuning is desired, the complete SDK is also included. With ILOG JViews Gantt, user interface developers have both the ease and rapid application development that Designer offers, along with the power and flexibility of a full-featured Java API!

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ILOG JViews Gantt offers a wide range of features for helping user interface developers create state-of-the art displays. These include:

• Designer for JViews Gantt, a point-and-click editor for specifying most aspects of the display, including the data source and the "rules" for defining how the chart will appear on the screen under different data conditions; Figure 2. Designer for JViews Gantt
• A variety of cross sectional views, including task-oriented views (commonly used in project management applications), resource-oriented views, Resource Load charts (used in resource-scheduling applications), and month and day calendar views.
• Performance features, such as video zooming for enhanced interaction, and load-on-demand and task filtering for dealing with large data sets. A new benchmarking sample provides statistics for such features for a variety of data sets.
• An algorithm that calculates and displays the critical path in the schedule.
• Easy thin-client deployment with interactive Ajax-enabled DHTML displays.
• A powerful Swing-like model-view-controller (MVC) architecture that provides clear separation between data and its screen representations, automatic notifications, and view synchronization.
• A full-featured SDK, for the ultimate control in customizing all aspects of the chart display and interaction. New features added include a powerful search facility, for highlighting activities based on their attributes, and a current time indicator.
• The inclusion of the ILOG JViews Charts product, which allows complete customization of the Resource Load chart view, as well as the complete spectrum of other charts offered in that product.
• The inclusion of a PERT chart diagram view of the Gantt data model (requires installation of the JViews Diagrammer product or evaluation version). You can install a PERT chart into your complete planning application to complement the data shown in activity-based Gantt chart, resource-based Gantt chart with Resource Data chart to show loading of resources, and Calendar views.