yFiles FLEX Product Types

Product Types

yFiles FLEX is available in three different editions which all provide your diagramming application with sophisticated client-side graph visualization and editing functionality.
The bundle editions additionally contain either a Java-based or a .NET-based yFiles server component which provides state-of-the-art automatic graph layout and graph analysis support. yFiles FLEX Client comes without server component, but can be combined with an additional extension package for client-side automatic layout calculation.

yFiles FLEX Client Contains yFiles FLEX. Provides client-side visualization and editing. yFiles FLEX Client Layout Extension Optional client-side automatic layout support.	yFiles FLEX Java Server Bundle Contains yFiles FLEX Client and additionally a server component for automatic layout that is based on yFiles for Java Complete. Includes support for convenient client/server communication using standard Servlet containers.	yFiles FLEX .NET Server Bundle Contains yFiles FLEX Client and additionally a server component for automatic layout that is based on yFiles.NET Complete. Includes support for convenient IIS-based client/server communication.

Product Features

The following table provides an overview of the features of the different yFiles FLEX products.

		yFiles FLEX Product
		yFiles FLEX Client	yFiles FLEX Client Layout Extension	yFiles FLEX Java Server Bundle	yFiles FLEX .NET Server Bundle
Client	powerful Adobe® Flex® graph viewer component for the presentation and creation/editing of diagrams
	fully customizable visualization of diagrams
	extensive and fully customizable user interaction support
	advanced interactive graph editing: snapping, orthogonal edges
	support for associating arbitrary custom data with diagram items
	support for collapsing/expanding groups
	support for drill-down to inner graphs
	support for loading/saving the XML-based GraphML format
	animation effects
	includes support classes for Java-based server technology
	includes support classes for .NET-based server technology
	extensive suite of efficient graph layout algorithms
	wide variety of graph and network analysis algorithms
Server	Java-based server technology
	.NET-based server technology
	convenient server-side graph model
	extensive suite of efficient graph layout algorithms
	wide variety of graph and network analysis algorithms
	support for convenient communication with a yFiles FLEX client