3 Ways to Add a Local JPlanner.jar to Your Project in Apache NetBeans

In this blog post we will look at 3 different ways to add the JPlanner.jar library to your project in the NetBeans IDE. The projects are:

  • Java Application with Maven
  • Java Application wtih Gradle
  • Java Appliation with Ant

We assume you have downloaded the JPlanner.jar either with the trial version of Scheduling for Java Swing or with one of the samples.

I. Java Application with Maven

Right click on the “Dependencies” node in your project tree and choose “Add Dependency”:


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Customizing Diagram Link Shape-s in JavaScript and React

In this blog post we will look at 3 different ways of customizing diagram links. They are:

  • Drawing one ShapeNode in the middle of the link.
  • Drawing a rectangle in the middle of a link.
  • Drawing a ShapeNode at conjunction points.

The following image illustrates DiagramLink s created by each of the three methods.

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Using Flexbox Layout to Arrange Diagram Components in React

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the flexbox layout to arrange the various diagram controls that come with the diagram library for React. The controls we will arrange are DiagramView , NodeListView , Ruler , Overview, Zoomer and Ruler. This is a screenshot of the final application:

We build our project using the React framework and MindFusion diagram library for React available from https://www.npmjs.com/package/diagram-library-react.
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