jnet, a successor to gnet

After several years of hoping that more recent programs would allow his graph tool gnet to be quietly forgotten, the authorhas finally bowed to requests from many colleagues to resurrect the project. This paper reviews some aspects of the history of stratigraphic software and presents an early prototype of jnet, a successor to gnet written in Java. jnet isintended to offer similar facilities to its predecessor, but with significant improvements in database connectivity, interoperability with other programs, and to enable access from anywhere. Whereas gnet was limited to Windows platforms, jnet may be used on a variety of desktop and mobile systems as well as through a Web interface.