jGRASP

jGRASP: A functional development environment offering Complexity Profile Graphs, Control Structure Diagrams and dynamic object viewers

The IDE (Integrated Development Environment) used to develop applications is incredibly important when it comes to being productive. Using a bulky IDE can slow even basic tasks significantly, while relying on a smaller and faster IDE can certainly speed up software development.

jGRASP is one of the fast and lightweight IDEs and it offers a simpler way to generate software visualizations to optimize app comprehensibility. To install jGRASP you’ll also need Java Runtime Environment. In fact, the tool can run on any OS supported by Java, including all Windows editions.

In the application’s interface you can conveniently browse your hard drive to load a file you want to edit or create a new project in various¬ programming languages such as Ada95, C, C++, Python, Java, CHDL, Objective C and even write code in a plain text file.

jGRASP lets you create dynamic object viewers, but also a viewer canvas that can work with the integrated debugger and Java workbench. The viewers have an identifier function which can accurately read traditional data structures like binary trees, stacks or hash table for several types of objects. Also, they can generate a representation of all the data, in an intuitive presentation view.