ILOG JViews TGO is aimed at an audience of Java developers. Therefore, we make the assumption that you can write Java code and that you are familiar with your Java environment so as to manipulate files and directories, use a text editor, and compile and run Java programs. We also assume that you are familiar with the PC or UNIX environment in which you are going to use JViews TGO, including its specific window system.

JViews TGO graphic components are also supplied as JavaBeans. Using these Beans supposes that you are familiar with a Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as Borland JBuilder.

Since version 3.0, JViews TGO includes a generic layer, called Common Presentation Layer and abbreviated as CPL, which extends the scope of JViews TGO application domains to Operation Support Systems GUIs. This generic layer is defined in the ilog.cpl set of packages that contains classes and interfaces prefixed with Ilp. This set of packages has not replaced the ilog.tgo packages but coexists with them.

CPL packages provide the infrastructure that is common to all JViews TGO applications whatever the business domain they are aimed at. They provide the business model, the data sources, and the graphic components that display the objects in various formats: table, tree, network view, equipment view. TGO packages on the other hand offer APIs to ease the development of GUIs specifically designed for telecommunication applications. They provide telecom-specific features such as predefined business objects, state systems and alarm systems compliant with the telecom standards.

For any compatibility issue, you can refer to the Release Notes provided in this documentation set.

In addition, since JViews TGO is an extension of ILOG JViews, the ILOG 2D graphic library for creating high-level graphic objects, you should be acquainted with the ILOG JViews core functionality as well as its graph layout capabilities.