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Figure 3: CategorySet editor with different distribution of
elements on background.
4 CONCLUSIONS
We see the main contribution of our work in providing
a novel visualization approach for component-based
software that is supported by an extendable reverse-
engineering mechanism. It is directed mainly at soft-
ware architects and developers.
Its implementation called ComAV is a universal
platform that can be used for visualization of any
component-based application and thanks to its use of
the ENT meta-model, the variety of visualization ap-
proaches can reach from simple diagramming to deep
analytic visualization, similar to (Wettel and Lanza,
2007) or (Telea and Voinea, 2004). ComAV thus of-
fers rich experience from absolutely different visual-
ization approaches applied over the same data.
The AIVA module then aims to offer quality visu-
alization of complex application structures. Its contri-
bution is in combining proven visual notation with in-
teractive techniques to accelerate the process of com-
prehension and to facilitate orientation in complex di-
agrams.
Both ComAV and AIVA are still under develop-
ment, thus neither of them is thoroughly evaluated.
They have however been successfully used to display
models of applications composed from about 60 com-
ponent. Scientific evaluation of the whole approach
will be provided as we will continue in our research.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The work was supported by the UWB grant SGS-
2010-028 Advanced Computer and Information Sys-
tems.
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