Many of the features of the yFiles diagramming library are brought together in the yEd Lite application:

All combined under a polished hood that also showcases the application-level qualities provided by the yFiles library, like, e.g., advanced printing support, I/O, image export, clipboard support, undo/redo, or user interface components for specifying algorithm settings.

yEd Lite is a self-contained, complete source code demo that presents almost the same functionality as the free yEd graph editor, which you can find on the yWorks website. The yEd Lite package is available as a separate download item in the yWorks Download Center, it can be readily compiled and started using the y.jar yFiles Java archive file.

The application's functionality can be easily enhanced by using further software components, like, e.g., the yFiles ySVG extension package, which will add directly to the I/O support of the yEd Lite application. The GUI functionality of the application can be enhanced using the JIDE Docking framework and JIDE Action framework. If you are a licensee of these components, you can readily include their functionality into your yEd Lite application.