ConfDesigner is a graphical environment written in

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, which eases the design of complex system configurations. Because of being part of the Sphinx4 Speech Recognizer, ConfDesigner is licensed under

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. ConfDesigner is based on th
Netbeans Graph Library

WebStart

The best way to get in touch with ConfDesigner is t
check out its sources
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without any installation using

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. Although only Java5 or higher is required to run the application locally, Java6 or higher is required to run it via Webstart.

Component Categories

In order to add a Configurable to one or several arbitrary categories, it's just necessary to annotate the class (or one of its parent-classes, or one of its implementing interfaces, or one of the interfaces being implemented by one of its parent classes. E.g.

@ConfCategory(value = )
class ParallelSearchDecoder implements Configurable

In ConfDesigner the categories are used to set up another component-selection-tree (beside the usual package-based one)

Release history

Planned

* improved node-layout * snap2grid * level of details for nodes in order to speed up the application * distributed computing support

In Process (upcoming Beta3)

* copy, cut, paste & delete for subgraphs * optional snap2grid * reimplementation of property panel (in order to support default properties and non-defined properties) * improved connection routing * better node-layout

Beta2

* ConfDesigner can be started directly via "java -jar confdesigner.jar" (because of added jar-Manifest) * Command line interface * Automatic range checking for basic properties (int, double, string) based on the property-annotations * quick-search: find nodes within a system configuration graph * tab-support: edit several system configurations within on designer-instance * project-support: bundle sets of system configurations * User-defined component-categories (to use them, just annotate the class with the ConfCategory-annotation). * Image-exporting of configuration-graphs * Various usability improvements (improved key bindings, fit-to-view, linking this website into the help-menu) * Background Labels, which are intended to help to get some additional structure into a system graph * fixed: deletion of models and connections * fixed: rerouting of connections

Beta1

* Supports all current Sphinx4 property types (including arbitrary large component lists) * Loads and saves Sphinx4-configuration files * In place editing of component names * Automatic graph layouting * Graph serialization * Automatic class path parsing in order to find all available Configurables * Completely instantiation free modeling * System instantiation and evaluation directly within the designer, including online configuration changes

Known Issues

* The CTRL-key needs to be pressed for zooming and in order to connect nodes which is confusing and not necessary {{DEFAULTSORT:Confdesigner Integrated development environments