JViews Charts Release Notes

This document describes the main changes that have been made to the JViews charts module since version 6.0.

Incompatibilities
General Changes
Library Changes

New Interfaces and Classes

• ilog.views.chart.IlvChartConfiguration.IlvDataSourceXMLSerializer
• ilog.views.chart.faces.component.data.IlvFacesJDBCDataSource
• ilog.views.chart.faces.component.data.IlvFacesJDBCMapping
• ilog.views.chart.faces.dhtml.renderkit.IlvJDBCDataSourceRenderer
• ilog.views.chart.faces.dhtml.taglib.IlvJDBCDataSourceTag
• ilog.views.chart.faces.dhtml.taglib.IlvFacesJDBCMappingTag

Modified Classes

• ilog.views.chart.IlvChart
• ilog.views.chart.IlvChartConfiguration
• ilog.views.chart.IlvScale
• ilog.views.chart.data.IlvDefaultDataSet
• ilog.views.chart.data.IlvJDBCDataSource
• ilog.views.chart.faces.component.data.IlvFacesDataSource
• ilog.views.chart.renderer.IlvComboChartRenderer

• Stock Viewer based on the SWT toolkit

Incompatibilities

• There are no known incompatibilities.

General Changes

• The graphical editor (called Designer for JViews Charts) has been extended to support the following features:
  • interactors configuration.
  • more representations supported in multiple graphical representation mode.
• The IlvJDBCDataSource class has been extended to support read/write access to the database.
• The JSF Tag library has been extended to include a new JDBC data source JSF component.
• The JSF Components can be dynamically resized.
• The Chart JSF Component has been extended to be able to load a Designer project URL.

Library Changes

New Interfaces and Classes

ilog.views.chart.IlvChartConfiguration.IlvDataSourceXMLSerializer

The interface for IlvDataSource serializer. This interface allows the serialization by an IlvChartConfiguration of an IlvDataSource .

ilog.views.chart.faces.component.data.IlvFacesJDBCDataSource

A data source that wraps an IlvJDBCDataSource. This kind of data source loads its data from a database.

ilog.views.chart.faces.component.data.IlvFacesJDBCMapping

This class defines a mapping of a data set x, y and label values to the corresponding columns of a JDBC query.

ilog.views.chart.faces.dhtml.renderkit.IlvJDBCDataSourceRenderer

This class is the DHTML renderer for an IlvFacesJDBCDataSource.

ilog.views.chart.faces.dhtml.taglib.IlvJDBCDataSourceTag

This class defines the custom tag handler for a JDBC Data Source component.

ilog.views.chart.faces.dhtml.taglib.IlvFacesJDBCMappingTag

This class defines the custom tag handler for a JDBC mapping component.

Modified Classes

ilog.views.chart.IlvChart

• Overview of new features:
  • The rotation of the scale title may be computed automatically depending on the projector configuration.

• New methods:
  • isAutoScaleTitleRotation(): Returns whether the rotation angle of the scale titles is computed automatically depending on the type of the scale axis and depending on the projector configuration.
  • setAutoScaleTitleRotation(boolean): Sets whether the rotation angle of the scale titles is computed automatically depending on the type of the scale axis and depending on the projector configuration.
  • isCursorSet(): Returns whether a specific cursor has been set on this chart.
  
  

ilog.views.chart.IlvChartConfiguration

• Overview of new features:
  • Custom data source serialization.

• New methods:
  • getDataSource(int): Returns the data source at the given index.
  
  

ilog.views.chart.IlvScale

• New methods:
  • getTitleFont(): Returns the title font.
  • setTitleFont(Font): Sets the title font.
  
  

ilog.views.chart.data.IlvDefaultDataSet

• New methods:
  • addData(double, double, String): Adds a data point at the end of this data set.
  
  

ilog.views.chart.data.IlvJDBCDataSource

• Overview of new features:
  • Support read/write database access.

• New constructors:
  • IlvJDBCDataSource(String, String, String, String, String, int, int, boolean): Creates a new IlvJDBCDataSource object.
  
  
• New methods:
  • computeColumnType(ResultSet): Returns an array of the types of every columns of the given ResultSet.
  • isReadOnly(): Returns whether this model is read-only.
  
  

ilog.views.chart.faces.component.data.IlvFacesDataSource

• New methods:
  • isRefreshData(): Returns the Boolean indicating that this data source will be refreshed during the life cycle.
  • setRefreshData(boolean): Sets whether this data source should be refreshed during the life cycle.
  
  

ilog.views.chart.renderer.IlvComboChartRenderer

• Overview of new features:
  • The various superimposed, clustered and stacked graphical representation types are supported.

• New methods:
  • has3DSupport(): Indicates whether this renderer supports three-dimensional drawing.
  
  

Example Changes

• New Samples:
  • Stock Viewer based on the SWT toolkit A sample that shows the integration of an IlvChart instance into an SWT application.