>i am a student tryingto write a progamme that will use graphs as their
>starting point but dont know where to start. i have a small amount of
>code to get me started but not much help.
See http://mindprod.com/products2.html#SCREWS for how to do basic
drawing.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html for various graphing
packages.

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Roedy Green - 12 Mar 2006 18:24 GMT
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:34:54 GMT, Roedy Green
<my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@munged.invalid> wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :
>See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/graph.html for various graphing
>packages.
in both senses, charts and nodes/edges.

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> i am a student tryingto write a progamme that will use graphs as their
> starting point but dont know where to start. i have a small amount of
> code to get me started but not much help.
Is jgrapht the sort of thing you are looking for ?
http://jgrapht.sourceforge.net/
(Note the spelling, the 't' is deliberate, "jgraph" is a different package with
different purposes, although that might also be relevant to you)
-- chris