the visualiser
aspectJ development tools subproject
 Welcome

The Visualiser is an extensible Eclipse plugin that can be used to visualize anything that lends itself to a 'bars and stripes' style representation. It began as the Aspect Visualiser, which was a part of AJDT. It was originally created to visualize how aspects were affecting classes in a project. It has since been extracted to become its own plug-in and given extension points in order that other types of information can be visualized.

An on-line demo showing how to use the Visualiser with AJDT is available from the AJDT demos page.

A tutorial exploring the Visualiser in detail, and describing the process of creating a new provider, using the Google provider as an illustration, is available from developerWorks: Create your own visualisations in Eclipse.

 Download

The Visualiser can be obtained either by installing AJDT or in standalone form as a zip file from the table below.

Visualiser Version:2.1.0
Release Date:December 14, 2004
Eclipse Versions:3.0 or 3.1
Zip file: visualiser_2.1.0_archive.zip

 Additional providers

The following providers are included with the Visualiser plugin itself:

  • A simple file-based provider that reads bar and stripe information from two files.
  • A resources and markers provider that responds to selections in the workbench and displays files as bars, with associated Eclipse markers as stripes.
  • An Eclipse JDT search results provider that displays Java classes as bars and the results of the most recent Java search as stripes.

The following providers are available separately:

Provider:Visualize the results of Google searches
Version:1.0.0
Release Date:January 5, 2005
Eclipse Versions:3.0 or 3.1
Dependencies:License key and googleapi.jar from Google Web APIs
Zip file: googleprovider_1.0.0_archive.zip

Provider:Visualize the CVS history of files in your workspace
Version:0.1.1
Release Date:February 14, 2005
Eclipse Versions:3.0 or 3.1
Zip file: cvsprovider_0.1.1_archive.zip