InfoVis Toolkit

Creating a visual Ajax or JavaScript based application is a little bit challenging for most developers. Visualization in any programming languages will require knowledge of the latest technique in a specific programming language and the ability to render visually stunning images.

While you could see many applications and websites with great looking interface, these sites became possible through collaboration. This type of application can't be easily developed by a single developer. Visually appealing online application in JavaScript is especially challenging. The difficulty of JavaScript alone should be a challenge for developers.

But the troubles in visual representation can be addressed JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit. This tool for JavaScript will help developers create applications that offer visual interaction with users. This is an open source toolkit that could be easily implemented in many JavaScript applications.

By being open source, the experience of a developer could be further enhanced if they choose to build using JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit. The possibility of an improved JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit could even be expected if the support for this type of toolkit will considerably increase.

Features of JIT

The ability to provide stunning JavaScript applications through this toolkit was made possible because of its features:

• Ability to integrate with various libraries - your JavaScript or Ajax based application can be easily integrated with JIT. The coding of the toolkit allows developers to work with any library created.

• Numerous representations - visualization with this toolkit is not only based layout in various pages. Users should be able to choose varying representation they wish to implement.

• Combination of representation - aside from creating standalone visualization in every webpage, developers can integrate two or more visual representation.

• Highly changeable - this is probably the best feature of the toolkit. Because of its open source characteristic, developers can implement the visualization with their preferred flavor. But changes on visualization are not only possible before implementation as developers can slowly improve the visualization after integration.

Dealing with Core.js

The main function that controls the entire toolkit is Core.js. This is a relatively simple function to implement which could easily get complicated if the user chooses to aggressively expand with the toolkit. This function interacts with class objects and other functions that should be implemented in the application.

The data for Core.js is handled by TreeUtil which uses JSON as its main data format. JSON should be expected in this toolkit since developers are aiming to allow this toolkit to work with major (or any) JavaScript libraries. By using what's easiest for JavaScript to read, integrating JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit will be a lot easier.

Implementing the Toolkit as an API

The ability of the toolkit to easily integrate itself to various JavaScript and Ajax based application is on its API format. Developers can create the API outside the application. Although it might require some changes in the application because of API, these changes will only mean enhancement of the user experience in the application. This format also increases the possibility of injecting the created APIs in other JavaScript or Ajax based websites.