A tool for creating and analysing Petri nets, migrated from http://pipe2.sourceforge.net/about.html
PIPE2 is an open source, platform independent tool for creating and analysing Petri nets including Generalised Stochastic Petri nets. Petri nets are a popular way for modelling concurrency and synchronisation in distributed systems. To learn more about Petri nets, you can start by reading the 2006/7 MSc. project report available here.
PIPE2 began life in 2002/3 as an MSc. Group Project at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London called "The Platform Independent Petri net Editor PIPE". This is now the official branch of that project. It is still being maintained as an on-going project at the college.
- 2002/3 James Bloom, Clare Clark, Camilla Clifford, Alex Duncan, Haroun Khan and Manos Papantoniou create PIPE
- 2003/4 Tom Barnwell, Michael Camacho, Matthew Cook, Maxim Gready, Peter Kyme and Michael Tsouchlaris continue the project as PIPE2 with substantial bug fixes and user interface enhancements.
- 2005 Nadeem Akharware adds advanced GSPN analysis capabilities.
- 2006/7 Edwin Chung, Tim Kimber, Benjamin Kirby, Will Master and Matt Worthington made bug fixes, code efficiency improvements and added zoom to the GUI and reachability graph generation capability.
To build the jar library execute the following from within the PIPE root directory:
$ mvn install
Once finished you should see the file target/PIPE-4.3.0.jar.
In order to run PIPE tool execute the following from within the PIPE root directory:
$ mvn exec:java
There are some internal libraries, which need to be found for maven. For the mean time they are located in the project under src/local-libs and this directory is treated as a local library. When installing expect the following warning:
[WARNING] The POM for internal:XXX is missing, no dependency information available
The original method for these local libraries required running a Python script to install the local libraries using mvn install, however this new method removes the need for a pre-install stp).
If you know of a better way to do this, please raise it in the issues section.