ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 Samples

ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 includes a rich set of sample code to be used as reference for the development of an application. Samples fall into three areas: application samples, applet samples, and server-side samples.
All sample source code can be found in subdirectories of <installdir>/jviews-charts81/samples.

ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 is based on the Java Platform, Standard Edition. To run an ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 client application, you need the Java Platform, Standard Edition Runtime Environment. To run an ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 server-side application within the provided Tomcat server, you need to run Tomcat with a Java SE installation (see http://java.sun.com/javase). To see an ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 sample applet, you need to have the Java Plug-in installed in your browser (see http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/).

The samples provided in the ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 distribution are already compiled so you do not need to compile them to be able to run them. If you want to modify a sample and recompile it, every sample contains a build.xml file that allows you to compile and run the sample. This file is an Ant project file. Ant is a Java-based build tool that is developed by the Apache Software Foundation. (See http://ant.apache.org.) The ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 distribution contains a version of Ant that you can use if you do not have Ant already installed on your computer. The Ant installation can be found in the <installdir>/jviews-framework81/tools directory.

To use Ant, you must set the following environment variables:

JAVA_HOME to point to the Java Platform, Standard Edition you are using. This release works with Java SE 5 and higher.

The build.bat and build.sh scripts use the version of Ant provided in the ILOG JViews Charts distribution. If you use these scripts, you do not need to set any other environment variables. If you want to run Ant directly, for example to use your own Ant installation, then you will need to set:

ANT_HOME to point to your Ant directory.

Add the Ant bin directory to your PATH.

To recompile a sample, go to the samples directory and do:

If you have ant on your path then you can just run Ant directly:

To remove compiled classes do:

Or using Ant directly:

The samples that can run as applications also have a 'run' target in their build.xml files and run.[bat|sh] batch files:

Or using Ant directly:

To know how to use the build.xml file of a sample use:

You can read the Ant documentation at http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html.

Copying a demo

Demos that run as an application, this excludes applets and server-side demos, can be copied by copying the demo directory wherever you like. Once the demo is copied you must either change the jviews.home property in the Ant build file, or set the environment variable JVIEWS_HOME, to point to the installation directory where your ILOG JViews products are installed.

The ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 distribution contains several samples that show the use of ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 running in a Web client. To run the server-side samples the ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 library requires a Web Server that provides Java Servlet 2.3 (or later) and JSP 1.2 technology (or later). The Tomcat Web server is supplied with the ILOG JViews Charts distribution so that you do not need to download a Web server to run these samples. Tomcat is the official reference implementation of the Servlet and JSP specifications. To get more information on Tomcat go to http://tomcat.apache.org/.

For your convenience, all server-side samples are already installed and ready to run under Tomcat. All you have to do is to run the Tomcat Web server.

Here are the steps for running the samples on the Tomcat Web server supplied with the ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 installation:

• Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to your Java Platform, Standard Edition.
• Go to the directory containing the ILOG JViews scripts that will copy all the files required by Tomcat (your license file and the web demos) and then run Tomcat. This is located in <installdir>/jviews-framework81/tools, where <installdir> is the root directory that contains your ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 installation. 
• Depending on your system, run the start_tomcat.bat or start_tomcat.sh script to run the Tomcat server.
  Note 1: The first time you start the Tomcat server it will take a while because it has to copy the samples and install them in the server.
  Note 2: If you are running on Windows, then you will find menu items in the Windows Start menu to start and stop the Tomcat server.
• Launch a Web browser and open the page: http://localhost:8080. You can use the pre-configured Tomcat Manager application to see all the installed web applications (username: tomcat password: tomcat).

Note that the DHTML/Ajax samples require one of the following browsers:

• Mozilla 1.7
• Firefox 1.5 or 2.0
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0
• SeaMonkey 1.0

The SVG samples require a Web browser that supports SVG. They are compatible with the following browsers:

• Internet Explorer 6.0 with Adobe SVG Viewer.
• Firefox 1.5 or 2.0

The server-side samples contain a WAR file (Web Archive) that allows you to install the sample easily. You can check the latest list of servers that support Servlet API 2.3 and JSP 1.2 or later at http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/industry.html.

Running the Samples without an X Server

The ILOG JViews Charts 8.1 server-side components can run with the headless support that is built into Java SE. For more information on this feature, please refer to the Java SE release notes. You can also run with a virtual X server like Xvfb (X Virtual Frame Buffer) if you are not running on Windows. This solution is described on the Sun web site.