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Version: 5.5

Building​

To build Charba, you can check out the project and to run Ant build.xml.

The Ant build.xml is able to build the 2 artifacts, related to the 2 distributions available.

The first distribution is a Charba file without any GWT dependency (but working on GWT anyway), consumable also in other J2CL - JavaToClosure frameworks, like Google Elemental2 and Elemento.

To build the project, execute buildBinary target.

It creates a charba-[version.release].jar file in dist folder, ready to be included in your project.

The second distribution is a Charba file with a hard GWT dependency which contains charts widgets and code splitting capabilities.

To build the project, execute buildBinaryGwt target.

It creates a charba-[version.release]-gwt.jar file in dist folder, ready to be included in your project.

Installation​

Currently Charba is available on MVN repository.

It is available also on GitHub releases.

If you are using Apache Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.pepstock</groupId>
    <artifactId>charba</artifactId>
    <version>5.5</version>
    <!-- for GWT -->
    <version>5.5-gwt</version>
</dependency>

If you are using Apache Ivy:

<dependency org="org.pepstock" name="charba" rev="5.5"/>
<!-- for GWT -->
<dependency org="org.pepstock" name="charba" rev="5.5-gwt"/>

To install in your GWT project, both for GWT and for J2CL artifacts, you must the following configuration in your GWT project module configuration:

...
<inherits name="org.pepstock.charba.Charba"/>
...

Charba is now leveraging on JSINTEROP.

As the name suggests, JsInterop is a way of interoperating Java with JavaScript. It offers a better way of communication between the two using annotations instead of having to write javascript in your classes (using JSNI).