A friend of mine just sent me an email mentioning that my work made it to the 2nd Edition of Core JavaServer Faces Book. It’s my charting component; JSF Chart Creator.
Page 628 – Core JavaServer Faces 2nd Ed.
Also my initial work on client side validation at jsf-comp project made it too:)
This made my day!
It’s been a while since I’ve stopped maintaining JSF ChartCreator but after seeing the 2000+ downloads for the previous version, I’ve decided to prepare a comeback:) This version is 1.2.0-M1 and contains many new features, several bugfixes and better documentation.
* Provided an optional configuration to switch between a servlet and a phaselistener as the generator of the charts. This is done so because, a phaselistener can be used in a portlet environment and a servlet can be used when some other lib’s phaselistener(like Ajax4JSF) prevents chart’s phaselistener from getting called.
* Added a new child component called chartAxis that can be used to customize a single axis.
* Created a renderer for the chart component so users can override it if they want.
* Clickable chart sections; Previous version was supporting custom image maps but this new feature generates automatic image maps for each chart section and users can attach events to be processed when for example a bar is clicked for a bar chart.
* Several bug fixes.
Much more information can be found at ChartCreator’s home page at;
http://jsf-comp.sourceforge.net/components/chartcreator/index.html
API and TLD Docs at;
http://people.apache.org/~cagatay/chartcreator/docs/tld/
http://people.apache.org/~cagatay/chartcreator/docs/api/
Download at;
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=137466
UPDATE: M1 release has an ugly jvm compatibility issue and was only working with java6, I’ve made a quick fix and made a M2 release that’s compatible with java 1.4+.
