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# THE JCOMMON CLASS LIBRARY: Version 0.7.0 # ############################################ 4 September 2002. Written by David Gilbert (david.gilbert@object-refinery.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 The Object Refinery. 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/index.html If you have any comments, suggestions or bugs to report, please post a message in the JCommon forum. ----------------- 2. CONTRIBUTORS ----------------- Thanks to the following developers who have contributed code to this class library: Anthony Boulestreau, Jeremy Bowman, J. David Eisenberg, Paul English, Hans-Jurgen Greiner, Bill Kelemen, Achilleus Mantzios, Thomas Meier, Krzysztof Paz, Andrzej Porebski, Nabuo Tamemasa, Mark Watson and Hari. --------------- 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.date.junit If you want to recompile these packages, you will need the junit.jar file that is included in the lib subdirectory. To find out more about JUnit, please visit: http://www.junit.org/ The current JCommon tests have been written using JUnit 3.7. --------------- 4. WHAT'S NEW --------------- Changes in each version are listed here: 0.7.0 : (4-Sep-2002) Moved package (com.jrefinery.data) to JFreeChart project. Bug fixes and Javadoc updates. 0.6.4 : (27-Jun-2002) Added logo to about box. Minor bug fixes (plus JUnit tests) and code tidy up. 0.6.3 : (14-Jun-2002) Bug fixes and Javadoc updates. 0.6.2 : (7-Jun-2002) Added GanttSeriesCollection and supporting classes. Added Polish resource bundle. Minor bug fixes. 0.6.1 : (5-Apr-2002) Added MeterDataset interface and DefaultMeterDataset class. Resource bundles for French, German and Spanish languages. Reinstated the Week class. Minor bugfixes. 0.6.0 : (22-Mar-2002) Changes to the API for the TimePeriod classes, to improve methods that convert to java.util.Date. New DefaultHighLowDataset class. New ResourceBundles for items that require localisation. 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. |