XFN Graph v1.3

Posted July 29th, 2006 in Development, Java

Almost 14 months since the previous release, a new version fo XFN Graph has been released to the world.

A lot of ‘under the hood’ changes with this one, as I refactored almost everything to make it much easier to work with. The spider porition is now multi-threaded, so it spiders sites much faster now. I’ve also replaced the default JGraph visualization library with Prefuse; part of doing that was refactoring things so that new libraries can be easily plugged in. This time there are also proper binary packages for Windows & OS X, in addition to the cross-platform JAR and source packages. I also set up a Java Web Start file for it, so you can try it out without downloading.

XFN Graph (2006-07-29)

In addition to the major changes, there were a number of smaller ones which I won’t go into, but I’ll close with a freshly generated graph centered on this page. Notice how much the XFN network has grown since I made the first image back in March 2005.

3 Responses to “XFN Graph v1.3”

  1. Lori Says:
    July 30th, 2006 at 8:33 am

    Explain to me the graph colourings? Green = rel, Blue = friend, Black = ??

  2. Geoff Says:
    July 30th, 2006 at 9:21 am

    Explain to me the graph colourings? Green = rel, Blue = friend, Black = ??

    Oh, those are all in the help file in the app. I’ll summarize here though:

    • Friendship: Blue
    • Professional: Black
    • Geographical: Orange
    • Family: Green
    • Romantic: Red
    • Friends are thick lines
  3. Lori Says:
    July 30th, 2006 at 4:00 pm

    I see… I should push others to use it, to make the web bigger.

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