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# THE JCOMMON CLASS LIBRARY: Version 0.8.6 # ############################################ 8 August 2003. (C)opyright, 2000-2003, by Object Refinery Limited and Contributors. Written by David Gilbert (david.gilbert@object-refinery.com) and others. ----------------- 1. INTRODUCTION ----------------- JCommon is a free general purpose Java class library that is used in several projects at www.jfree.org, including JFreeChart and JFreeReport. 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.jfree.org/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, Thomas Morgner, 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: org.jfree.junit org.jfree.date.junit org.jfree.util.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 3.8. --------------- 4. WHAT'S NEW --------------- Changes in each version are listed here: 0.8.6 : (8-Aug-2003) Update to coincide with JFreeChart 0.9.11. 0.8.5 : (25-Jul-2003) Transferred some support classes from JFreeChart. 0.8.3 : (16-Jun-2003) XML Parser: error locations are printed in the parse exceptions to make debugging xml files easier. 0.8.2a: (04-Jun-2003) xml parser: configuration interface modified. + Bugfixes ... 0.8.2 : (26-May-2003) xml parser class factory bug fix 0.8.1 : (09-May-2003) Added support for the xml parser and imported some base classes from the JFreeReport project. 0.8.0 : (24-Apr-2003) Renamed all packages from com.jrefinery.* to org.jfree.*. 0.7.3 : (11-Apr-2003) Added serialization for SerialDate and SpreadsheetDate classes. Added a SerialUtilities class. Removed palette classes (now in JFreeChart). Added an attribute to control whether or not a workaround is used for drawing rotated text. 0.7.2 : (6-Feb-2003) Bug fixes and Javadoc updates, incorporated an Ant script to recompile the source files and generate the Javadocs. 0.7.1 : (18-Oct-2002) Bug fixes and Javadoc updates. 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. |