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SolidSX
Author(s):
(unknown)
Institution:
SolidSourceIT
Year:
2009
URL:
http://bit.ly/7qCHo2
Project Description:
Software Explorer (SolidSX) is a standalone Windows application that provides insight into large software systems. SolidSX creates visualizations that simultaneously show the structure, dependencies, metrics on all types of source code elements (files, classes, methods, fields, etc.). By using hardware-accelerated graphics, SolidSX is able to display large amounts of information in a concise manner, providing easy exploration through large source codes.

SolidSX comes as a generic structure/dependencies/metrics visualization tool, and can be adapted to any given programing language via importer plugins. These are available for .NET (all languages), Java and Visual C++ (BSC format only).
Comments (4):
This tool is really great, can recommend it!

Posted by Phil Anderson on Feb 17, 2010 at 6:04 PM (GMT)

I tried to get this to work with a couple of enterprise components I work on. Unfortunately it did not work. Seems to have problems with big classpaths. This was a same as the visualization looked interesting (but to be honest it’s probably completely useless and just a gimmick)

Posted by 1bee9581 on Mar 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM (GMT)

They only just added Java support in January 2010. They're still working the kinks out. It's necessary to manually resolve the classpath, which is a pain. Once that's done, the UI is snappy even with large projects (10-100K classes). They have a user forum on their Web site through which you can submit questions andproblems.

Posted by Xris (Flatbush Gardener) on Mar 19, 2010 at 10:02 PM (GMT)

Hmm, how could you resolve Java classpaths automatically in the general case? I mean, packages could in principle be located anywhere on one's filesystem, or you think of something else? BTW, there's a new version with some additional features like metrics and statistics and (apparently) Visual Studio integration.

Posted by melkquelk on Apr 28, 2010 at 12:19 AM (GMT)

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