Design / DSM
The DSM (Dependency Structure Matrix) is a compact way to represent and navigate across dependencies between components. According to the navigation level, those components can be Maven modules, packages or files :
Row selection
A row can be selected by clicking on the component name :
Colors meaning
Colors are used to help visualize row dependencies at a glance :
Which means that green components depend on blue components which depends on orange components. Here is a simple example on commons collections project :
Cell selection
A cell can be selected by clicking on the number of file dependencies :
DSM sorting and cycles
Find usages for dependencies
 | The detail of a dependency is not available between Maven modules. |
Zoom into a component to get dependencies between sub-components
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