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Just wondering if people would be interested in a call back / data flow visualization for their entire application ? Would it be helpful ? Are there people looking for something like that ?

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Not sure what you are thinking of exactly, but for monitoring etc Concurix[1] provided deep details about the execution of the whole application.

[1]: http://concurix.com/#tutorial-transaction-history

I was not aware of Concurix . Thank you for the link. I am aware of such monitoring tools though. They seem to be aimed at a different audience though ( monitoring I guess is the key word here ). I was wondering more about the day to day developer who is trying to acquaint himself with a new codebase ? Wondering if a visually shown callgraph / data flow etc would be much easier to digest than a wall of text ( the actual code base )?

@ganarajpr I would love this product! Are you thinking about building it?

@jeffmorrisjr : Thank you for the validation :). Yes, I have been building a prototype product for sometime. Nothing out there yet - as far as I know.

If someone knows of a tool / app which does this for a web app I would love to hear about it. We are building bigger and bigger web applications ( and mobile apps these days! ) so my guess is something like this will help.

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