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JuiceKit is an open source software development kit (SDK) that integrates with the Adobe Flex for building the “information experience” applications. The SDK includes the components for controls, visualizations and utility classes that are easy to implement and are very pleasing.

To define the SDK in a much more better way it has some components such as the treemap, US Map, “copying data to the computer’s clipboard” etc. These components can be used independently either within other applications or assembled together to create the full applications. The JuiceKit is very well-documented and there are examples given in the website to show the things that can be created.

The JuiceKit has been used to build many information visualizations and customer applications. Some of the illustrations are cited below:
1. Federal Recovery Act Treemap – This is an application of the JuiceKit SDK Treemap visualization to understand the components of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 much better.
2. Economic Census Data Treemap – The NAICS takes an economic census every 5 years. This data is used to demonstrate on how the JuiceKit is used to implement the treemap with the additional controls to change some of the display parameters.

The packaged distributions will be available soon. Meanwhile to use the project, you will have two ways: firstly, download the latest build from the continuous integration server. And secondly to build the library and documentation from the source following the Getting Started instructions given in their website.

Presently only the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for developers is available. The tutorial documents will be added soon.
The JuiceKit can be downloaded from Github. The requirements for this are Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124 or later, Adobe Flex SDK and Adobe Flex Builder IDE (optional).

Feedback and contributions from the community are made possible. For this you can either get involved in the JuiceKit development community discussion group on the Google Groups to learn about the best practices, tips and tricks and questions and answers. They are trying to make suggestions and report bugs in their issue tracking system possible. For this, you can help them stay focussed on the areas that you believe to be the most important. Lastly, if you want you can make changes to the code and submit them for review and can be included into the code. All this can be done in Github.