Overview of API changes in INTViewer 5.0

New API

INTViewer 5.0 brings a new set of functionalities that have been made available through the API:

Choosers and Savers

com.interactive.intviewerapi.data.IDataChooser.Factory has been deprecated.

  • Use com.interactive.intviewerapi.data.ISingleFileDataChooser to select one dataset on disk
  • Use com.interactive.intviewerapi.data.IMultipleFileDataChooser to select several datasets on disk

com.interactive.intviewerapi.data.IDataSaver.Factory has also been deprecated.

  • Use com.interactive.intviewerapi.data.ISingleFileDataSaver to save one dataset on disk

A com.interactive.intviewerapi.data.ISingleDataChooser interface has been added to select one dataset among all data sources, depending on the plugins loaded (OpenWorks/DecisionSpace, INT Geo, etc). If no additional data source is registered, this interface behaves like ISingleFileDataChooser (described above)

A similar com.interactive.intviewerapi.data.IMultipleDataChooser interface has also been added to select several datasets.

NetBeans 7.3.1

INTViewer 5.0 is based upon NetBeans 7.3.1 instead of NetBeans 7.3 for INTViewer 4.5.2.

Incompatibilities with 4.5.2

A set of API incompatibilities have been introduced as part of this release.