Java is dead! Long live Java

Posted At : November 2, 2009 8:59 PM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Software,Sun Microsystems,Java

Java 5 has reached it's "end-of-service-life" yesterday. Java 5 entered Suns "hospice" for software on April 8th, 2008, and passed into the oblivion on All Saints Day (somewhat fitting really).

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Installing Railo 3 on SUSE 10 with Apache2 and Tomcat: Part 1

Posted At : February 14, 2009 7:10 PM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Linux,Railo,Java,Examples

Earlier this week I mentioned that I had successfully installed Railo on a SUSE 10 Enterprise virtual machine. I had also said that I would provide a step-by-step guide on how you can achieve the same. Hopefully this guide will help you set up your instance a heck of a lot faster than it took me to set up mine.

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JFree Chart Custom Tag up on RiaForge

Posted At : February 15, 2008 8:56 PM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Coldfusion,Java

I finally managed to get around and upload Version 1 of my JFree Chart custom tag onto riaforge.

I typically use the import statement when using custom tags in the below examples I have imported the custom tag line so:

Here are a few screen shots and some example code

Bar Chart

<jf:jfreechart chartType="bar" height="650" width="450" showmarkers="true" showlabels="true" title="Bar Chart Example" categoryAxisLabel="Tasks" categoryValueLabel="Date" createImageMap="true">
    <jf:jfSeries seriesLabel="Series 1" serieslinethickness="3" query="#s1#" itemColumn="column" valueColumn="value" seriesColorHEX='cc0000' colorlist="cc0000,F5A529,999999">
    <jf:jfSeries seriesLabel="Series 2" serieslinethickness="3" query="#s2#" itemColumn="column" valueColumn="value" seriesColorHEX='F5A529' colorlist="cc0000,F5A529,999999">
    <jf:jfSeries seriesLabel="Series 3" serieslinethickness="3" query="#s3#" itemColumn="column" valueColumn="value" seriesColorHEX='999999' colorlist="cc0000,F5A529,999999">
</jf:jfreechart>

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JFree Chart Custom Tag

Posted At : February 8, 2008 8:15 PM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Coldfusion,Java

I mentioned a while back about my efforts to integrate the free and open-source Java based JFree chart engine. Thanks to a tip from Paul H over at SustainableGIS the last hurdle with the nested Double class is behind me and I could concentrate on actually getting the charts to work.

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Integrating JFree Charts

Posted At : January 30, 2008 8:05 PM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: Coldfusion,Java

If you haven't heard of JFree charts you should really take a look at what it can do. It's a completely free charting engine written entirely in Java by David Gilbert (no relation, at least none that I know of), and has a heck of a lot of charting options.

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