Preface

Oracle Chart Builder is a high-performance Java package that helps you create charts for business graphics and performance applications. You can deploy Chart Builder charts in Java applications, Java applets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), servlets, and HTML pages.

This preface contains these topics:

• Intended Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Organization

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Intended Audience

Oracle Chart Builder Application Developer's Guide is intended for application programmers who need to generate charts to be displayed using Java applets, JSPs, Servlets, or in HTML pages. To use this guide effectively, you must have a working knowledge of Java and HTML.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle Corporation is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For additional information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

JAWS, a Windows screen reader, may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, JAWS may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle Corporation does not own or control. Oracle Corporation neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Organization

The following table describes the contents of this guide:

Related Documents

Additional documentation is installed with the software, in the subdirectories of the Chartbuilder directory, and is available through the index.html file in the top-level chartbuilder directory. This file contains links to other information that is installed with the kit:

• The reference material for the API, available in JavaDoc format

• This guide, available in PDF format

  The guide is available in HTML format, as well as PDF format, on Oracle Technical Network (http://technet.oracle.com/index.html)

• Online tutorials, which describe the basic techniques used to create charts

• A demo tour, which guides you through the samples on the kit and which includes images of the charts that the samples create and links to the code

• A whitepaper, which describes the features of Chart Builder

• HTML demos, which show you how to create interactive charts in HTML contexts

For more information about Java, see the API documentation (also known as JavaDoc) provided by Sun Microsystems at

http://java.sun.com/docs

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual: