About yFiles for Java

Try out our free yFiles-based graph editor, yEd, to get a broad overview of yFiles library features.

Visit our gallery to see a variety of diagrams made with yFiles.

See the yFiles layout styles and play with each layout in our demo applications.

yFiles provides you with the essential building blocks for writing Java applications that analyze, visualize, edit, or automatically draw graphs, diagrams, or networks.

If you need diagramming components, you need yFiles!

Total flexibility is one of the main advantages of choosing yFiles. Our many customers come from diverse application areas including:

• biochemical network analysis and visualization
• business process modeling
• data mining (e.g. log file analysis)
• database management and modeling
• network management
• social networks
• software engineering (e.g. UML diagramming)
• workflow management (e.g. flow chart generation)
• WWW visualization
• visual programming

yFiles functionality is divided into three parts - Basic, Layout, and Viewer.

Learn more about the yFiles product types, all available combinations of yFiles Basic, Layout, and Viewer.

yFiles Basic contains essential classes and data types for graph analysis. From highly efficient implementations of Graph, Priority Queue, and other advanced data types, to a wide variety of graph and network algorithms, yFiles Basic provides an indispensable toolkit for a range of network analysis tasks.

yFiles Layout builds upon yFiles Basic to offer a perfect suite of graph layout algorithms. Diverse layout styles including hierarchic, orthogonal, and circular are provided as easy-to-integrate components that can be configured programmatically to suit most layout demands. Even incremental layout is made simple, and our edge routing algorithms make it easy to route edges into existing diagrams.

yFiles Viewer also builds upon yFiles Basic. It features the powerful graph viewer component showcased in the yEd graph editor, along with several other useful Swing-based GUI elements. yFiles Viewer also supports diverse graph and image file formats (GraphML, JPG, GIF) and has excellent printing capabilities.