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1、* * JFREECHART: Version 1.0.13 * *20 April 2009(C)opyright 2000-2009, by Object Refinery Limited and Contributors.- 1. INTRODUCTION - JFreeChart is a free chart library for the Java(tm) platform. It runs on the Java 2 Platform (JDK 1.3 or later) and uses the Java 2D API for drawing.JFreeChart is lic
2、ensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL). A copy of the licence is included in the distribution.Please note that JFreeChart is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please refer to the
3、licence for details.We are grateful to the many developers that have contributed to JFreeChart. The contributors are listed below in section 10.- 2. LATEST VERSION - The latest version of this class library can be obtained from:http:/www.jfree.org/jfreechart/If you have an comments, suggestions or b
4、ugs to report, please post a message in the JFreeChart forum.- 3. DOCUMENTATION - You can download installation instructions (jfreechart-1.0.13-install.pdf) from the JFreeChart home page or the project page on SourceForge.Further documentation for JFreeChart (the JFreeChart Developer Guide) isavaila
5、ble to purchase from by Object Refinery Limited, a company owned and operated by David Gilbert (the original author of JFreeChart). For more information, please see:http:/www.object- of the JFreeChart Developer Guide are an important source of funding for the project. Please help us to continue deve
6、loping free software.API documentation files in HTML format are available on-line. If you wish to keep a local copy of the API files, you can regenerate them directly from the source code. You can do this using the javadoc or gjdoc utilities directly, or with the Ant script (build.xml) included in t
7、he distribution.- 4. DEPENDENCIES - JFreeChart has the following dependencies:(a) JDK 1.3.1 or higher - JFreeChart requires the Java2D and Collections APIs, so it definitely wont work with JDK 1.1 (with a small amount of effort you can probably get it to compile and run with JDK 1.2). If you are usi
8、ng JFreeChart to create applets, this means that you cannot rely on the JVM integrated with Microsofts Internet Explorer - your users will need to have the Java 2 plug-in installed. Most other browsers (e.g. Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Konqueror) support JRE 1.4, 1.5 or 1.6.(b) JCommon - version 1.0
9、.0 or later. The runtime jar file (version 1.0.16) is included in the JFreeChart distribution. You can obtain the complete source code for JCommon from:http:/www.jfree.org/jcommon/JCommon is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence.(c) GNU JAXP (JDK 1.3 only) - a free implem
10、entation of the standard XML processing APIs for Java.http:/www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/jaxp/Classes in the org.jfree.data.xml package require this library, or another JAXP v1.1 compliant parser. The gnujaxp.jar file (from the gnujaxp-1.0beta1.zip distribution) is included with JFreeChart. GNUJA
11、XP is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License with an additional library exception.THIS LIBRARY IS ONLY REQUIRED BY JFREECHART IF YOU ARE USING JDK 1.3.(d) servlet.jar - classes in the org.jfree.chart.servlet package require this file. The JFreeChart distribution includes the serv
12、let.jar file distributed with Tomcat 4.1.31. Applicable license terms are published at: http:/ (e) JUnit - a unit testing framework (the junit.jar runtime file is included in the distribution). JUnit is licensed under the terms of the IBM Common Public License. You can find out more about JUnit and/
13、or download the latest version from:http:/www.junit.orgThe JUnit tests included with JFreeChart have been created using JUnit 4.3.1.- 5. SUPPORT - Support questions can be posted in the free support forum athttp:/www.jfree.org/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=3We read all questions posted in the forum, and re
14、spond to as many as we can in the time available. Unfortunately, there are too many questions to answer them all.Priority support is offered (in a separate forum at www.object-) to companies and institutions that have purchased a site licence for the JFreeChart Developer Guide.- 6. ANT BUILD SCRIPT
15、- An Ant build script (build.xml) is included in the distribution. This is the same script that is used to create the JFreeChart distribution.For more information about Ant:http:/ant.apache.org/If you want to rebuild the JFreeChart jar file, we highly recommend that you use this script as it includes certain files (for example, .properties files) that you MUST have in the jar file for JFreeChart to fu
