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Mirror of Apache Pivot
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README 

        

Welcome to Pivot

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Apache Pivot is a platform for building rich internet applications in Java.

It combines the enhanced productivity and usability features of a modern RIA

toolkit with the robustness of the industry-standard Java platform.



Like most modern development platforms, Pivot provides a comprehensive set of

foundation classes that together comprise a "framework". These classes form the

building blocks upon which more complex and sophisticated applications can be

built. Pivot classes are grouped into the following categories and distributed

in their associated libraries:



Distribution JARs

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* Core (pivot-core-2.1.0.jar):

  A set of common, non-UI-specific classes.



* WTK (pivot-wtk-2.1.0.jar):

  Classes for user interface development, including windows, dialogs, buttons,

  lists, text input, layout, drag and drop, XML markup, etc.



* WTK Terra Theme (pivot-wtk-terra-2.1.0.jar):

  The default WTK theme provider for Pivot, responsible for the look & feel of

  the user interface components.



* Web (pivot-web-2.1.0.jar):

  Classes to facilitate communication with remote data services.



* Web Server (pivot-web-server-2.1.0.jar):

  Classes to facilitate implementation of server-side data services.



* Charting (pivot-charts-2.1.0.jar):

  Classes for adding interactive charting capabilities to Pivot applications.



To begin developing with Pivot, simply include the necessary libraries on your

project classpath.



NOTE Pivot uses the streaming API for XML (StAX) to load and process WTKX

source files. Like many APIs in the JDK, StAX uses a service discovery

mechanism to locate and instantiate an appropriate parser. When deploying Pivot

applications in a web browser, this may incur unnecessary requests to the web

server. The service resolution process looks on the classpath for an appropriate

service descriptor file; since an applet's classpath also contains its codebase,

the JRE will look for this file on the web server if it is not found in an

archive JAR. Such requests can have a noticeable impact on runtime performance,

especially for slow or unresponsive web servers. As a result, it is recommended

that all Pivot applications deployed via the web set the codebase_lookup applet

parameter to false.



Distribution WARs

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Pivot also includes web archives for browsing the Pivot tutorial and demo

applications. The source for those applications can be found in the source

distribution.



Dependencies

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* Pivot requires Java 8 or greater.



* Pivot's charting components require a compatible chart provider. No such

  provider is included in this release, but one is available here:



  http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/pivot-jfree/



  Version 2.1 of this provider is compatible with Pivot 2.1.x. Please note that

  this provider has a dependency on JFreeChart, which is licensed under LGPL.



* SVG support requires SVG Salamander, which is licensed under a dual LGPL/BSD

  license and is available here:



  http://java.net/projects/svgsalamander/



* Scripting support requires a compatible script engine. See

  http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=223 or

  http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/scripting/index.html

  for more information.



Documentation

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Pivot home page: http://pivot.apache.org/

Demos:           http://pivot.apache.org/demos/

Tutorials:       http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/

Javadoc:         http://pivot.apache.org/2.1.0/docs/api/



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