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Stable Releases

• Standalone KIELER Rich Client Application
  All the functionality of KIELER packed into an application that you can download and run.
• Eclipse Update Site: http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~kieler/updatesite/
  Install the KIELER features into your own Eclipse 4.2 installation.
  • Note: Some features of the current version of KIELER may not work with Eclipse versions prior to 4.2. If you need support for Eclipse 3.8, try installing KIELER release 0.7.0. If you need support for Eclipse 3.7, try installing KIELER release 0.6.0. If you need support for Eclipse 3.6, install KIELER release 0.5.1.
• Tools and Libraries
  Standalone tools and Java libraries. (layout algorithms and layout web service)

Nightly Builds

• KIELER Rich Client Application Nightly Builds
  Download nightly builds of the KIELER client application, the KIELER layout web service, and the KIELER layout libraries (KLay) for use outside of Eclipse. (Either with or without all dependencies bundled into the libraries.)
• Eclipse Update Site: http://rtsys.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~kieler/updatesite/nightly/
  Install nightly builds of the KIELER features into your own Eclipse 3.7 installation.

License

KIELER software is made available under the Eclipse Public License, except some integrated third-party components. KIELER can be used independently from OGDF, lp_solve, and Ptolemy, but depends on the Google Guava library.

• The OGDF library is a collection of powerful layout algorithms.
  GNU General Public License
• The Google Code libraries provide utility classes used throughout KIELER.
  Apache License
• Ptolemy II is used as a simulation engine and for importing Ptolemy models.
  Berkeley Software Distribution License
• jETI is a Java interface for tool integration in web services, which we offer as an alternative to the WSDL-based JAX-WS interface for our graph layout web service.
  GNU Lesser General Public License

Requirements

• Java Runtime Environment, version 1.5 or greater.
• For the automatic layout of SyncCharts, we recommend installing Graphviz (Eclipse Public License).