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# THE JCOMMON CLASS LIBRARY: Version 0.5.6 # ############################################ 6 March 2002. Written by David Gilbert (david.gilbert@jrefinery.com). (C)opyright, 2000-2002, by Simba Management Limited and Contributors. ----------------- 1. INTRODUCTION ----------------- JCommon is a collection of utility classes for Java(tm), used in several projects at www.object-refinery.com. JCommon is licensed, free of charge, under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence. A copy of the licence is included in the download. The latest version of this class library can be obtained from: http://www.object-refinery.com/jcommon If you have any comments, suggestions or bugs to report, please post a message in the JCommon discussion forum. ----------------- 2. CONTRIBUTORS ----------------- Thanks to the following developers who have contributed code to this class library: Andrzej Porebski, Bill Kelemen, J. David Eisenberg, Mark Watson, Nabuo Tamemasa and Achilleus Mantzios. --------------- 3. TEST CASES --------------- Some test cases have been developed using the JUnit testing framework. These are included with the source code, in the following packages: com.jrefinery.junit com.jrefinery.data.junit com.jrefinery.date.junit If you want to recompile these packages, you will need the junit.jar file that is included in the jars subdirectory. To find out more about JUnit, please visit: http://www.junit.org --------------- 4. WHAT'S NEW --------------- Changes in each version are listed here: 0.5.6 : (6-Mar-2002) Bug fix for combined datasets. Additional methods in the TimePeriod class to handle different timezones. Updated About box classes moved to new package com.jrefinery.ui.about. Renamed Files.java --> FileUtilities.java and SerialDates.java --> SerialDateUtilities.java. Added new domain name (http://www.object-refinery.com) in the source headers. 0.5.5 : (15-Feb-2002) Fixed bugs in the constructors for the TimePeriod subclasses. Reversed the order of the parameters in the Month(int, int) constructor. Added methods to Datasets.java to handle stacked data ranges. Fixed bug in CombinedDataset. 0.5.4 : (8-Feb-2002) New WindDataset interface and DefaultWindDataset class. Bug fix for DefaultCategoryDataset. 0.5.3 : (25-Jan-2002) Bug fixes, some minor API changes. 0.5.2 : (10-Dec-2001) Added new combination datasets by Bill Kelemen. Added contributors table to the AboutFrame class. 0.5.1 : (27-Nov-2001) AboutPanel and AboutFrame classes added. 0.5.0 : (21-Nov-2001) PieDataset and DefaultPieDataset classes added. 0.4.2 : (16-Nov-2001) New classes in the com.jrefinery.data.* package, plus some new JUnit test cases. |