Construction of Beachball Diagram Using Java-based Software Application “Dishansh 2005”

This paper describes a new application, “Dishansh 2005,” to construct a “beachball diagram” using Java-based software. The name “Dishansh” is derived from the Gujarati words “disha” (direction) and “ansh” (degree) (Patel 2005, 261, 240). The design and development process of Dishansh 2005 strictly followed the concept of software engineering. It is an interactive multipurpose tool designed to meet various requirements of the user. A user can perform a large range of operations with this interactive software: Java is an object-oriented, platform-independent, Internet-ready programming language. Object-oriented software is strictly modularized, which simplifies and speeds up the development, maintenance, and updating of code. In Java, modularity is implemented through the class-A collection of data structures and operations on the data. There is a multitude of ready-to-use Java classes freely available on the Internet for a wide and rapidly growing number …