NetBeans SVG Editor plugin allows viewing and editing SVG files within Netbeans IDE. SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. SVG 1.1, SVG 1.0 and SVG Mobile Profiles are Web standards (W3C Recommendations). The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths, alpha masks, filter effects, template objects and extensibility. SVG drawings can be dynamic and interactive. The Document Object Model (DOM) for SVG allows for straightforward and efficient vector graphics animation via scripting. A rich set of event handlers such as onmouseover and onclick can be assigned to any SVG graphical object. Because of its compatibility and leveraging of other Web standards, features like scripting can be done on SVG elements and other XML elements from different namespaces simultaneously within the same Web page.

SVG plugin is available as nbm file and was tested for Netbeans 3.5.1. version. You can download open source Netbeans IDE from www.netbeans.org . In order to install the svg module please

• Download the module file from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vcb/svg_viewer.nbm?download
• In NetBeans, open the Update Center by clicking Tools | Update Center
• Click the radio button at the bottom of the first panel that says "Install Manually Downloaded Modules (.nbm Files)" and click Next.
• Click the Add button to choose and add your downloaded .nbm file to the list.
• Proceed through the rest of the steps of the wizard. At the end of the wizard, NetBeans will restart and your new modules will be installed!

Now select and click on the SVG file and see image on the right panel. You can right click and select edit to see and edit the source of SVG file as text XML file. If you are particularly interested in SVG based Graph Editor please watch this subproject home page for coming downloadable version of the editor.

The current version is 0.9 and needs some improvement. To-dos for next version:

• integrate with Netbeans XML editor
• show DOM tree in left navigational panel as for standard XML files

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

Screenshots

SVG based Diagram Editor within NetBeans:

Batik SVG sample: