CARTE RELEASE NOTES
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Release 0.3, January 2, 2007
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Carte is a template-report engine API that produces reports from arbitrary 
data, and currently into two formats: text (including, but not limited to, 
XML/XHTML) and PDF.

This version comes bundled with binary releases of a few dependency packages 
from the same author: CSS4J, HTML4J and JCLF modules.

IMPORTANT: This software should be considered as "early access" for interested 
developers only.

Unless otherwise noted, this software is provided under a BSD-style license 
(see the LICENSE.txt file).


Java(tm) Runtime Environment requirements
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All the classes in the binary package have been compiled with a J2SE 5.0 
compiler, and most classes require this J2SE version to compile.


Software dependencies
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To run this package, you need:

- The JCLF package, binaries are included with this distribution (jclf.jar).
  See http://informatica.info/projects/jclf/.

- The CSS4J package, binaries are included with this distribution (css4j.jar).
  See http://informatica.info/projects/css/ or http://css4j.org/.

- The HTML4J package, binaries are included with this distribution (html4j.jar).
  See http://informatica.info/projects/html4j/ or http://html4j.org/.

- The Batik "batik-css.jar" and "batik-util.jar" files, available from the 
  latest Batik SVG toolkit release in http://xml.apache.org/batik/.

- The dom4j JAR package (tested with 1.6.1). http://www.dom4j.org/download.html

- The Jaxen (http://jaxen.codehaus.org/) JAR (this software was tested with 
  1.1 beta-8).

- jCharts, a Java based charting utility (see http://jcharts.sourceforge.net/),
  in version 0.7.5.

- iText (http://www.lowagie.com/iText/), a library for writing PDF files.

- Jakarta Commons Codec. See http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/

- Jakarta Commons Digester. See http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/digester/

- The Log4J package, which is a logging de-facto standard. See 
  http://logging.apache.org/log4j/docs/ for more information.



Carlos Amengual
Genus Consulting, SL
http://informatica.info/