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What is PJA Toolkit&?
PJA (Pure Java AWT) Toolkit is a JavaTM library for drawing graphics developed by eTeks. It is 100% Pure Java and doesn't use any native graphics resource of the system
on which the Java Virtual Machine runs.
java.awt.Graphics methods such as drawLine (), fillOval (), drawString (),... are implemented in the default JVM with
native graphical functions (except in some cases for Java2D) : That means that drawLine () finally calls a GDI system function on Windows or
X11 function on a X11/UNIX machine even if the drawing is done in an off-screen image using the class java.awt.Image. This ensures the best performance
for drawing graphics with Java.
But in a few cases, this default behavior can cause problems that PJA Toolkit
library improves :
When no X11 Display is available on a UNIX machine (also called headless environment) or when GDI resources are low on Windows, it is impossible to
compute off-screen images with java.awt.Graphics methods under a JDK version & 1.4, even if your program doesn't need to display these images.
Typically, this situation happens for servlets returning dynamically generated images like pies, charts or web counters.
With PJA Toolkit, you don't need to change your Java programs that you expected
to run : setting java.awt system property to com.eteks.awt.PJAToolkit
is the only required modification to your program with Java 1.1 (see PJA Toolkit
FAQ and com.eteks.awt.PJAToolkit class
for more information).
It is also impossible to compute off-screen images when the Java security manager forbids access to any Toolkit or the AWT library. In that case you
can although create an instance of com.eteks.awt.PJAImage class which extends java.awt.Image, and draw into it with graphics methods.
Drawing with native function doesn't give always the exact same results for each pixel on all platforms. For example, SansSerif font renders
differently on MacOS, Windows and other systems : each letter of this font isn't drawn the same, and is different if font anti-aliasing is set or not
on the system. On MacOS, circles aren't rendered as specified in Java documentation : fillArc () and drawArc () don't use the same base
ellipse...
Finally, PJA Toolkit library available under GNU General Public License
is supplied with its Java source files, and is a good exemple for studying
How pixels are drawn by graphics functions on a computer (com.eteks.awt.PJAGraphics uses Bresenham algorithms to draw lines and circles).
How to use the Java paradigm for managing images specified by the ImageConsumer/ImageProducer/ImageObserver interfaces.
How Java Toolkit works and what it needs to work (which abstract classes and interfaces to implement).
Sources are supplied to allow developers to improve and optimize the graphic drawing methods.
com.eteks.awt package files are Java 1.0 compliant but needs JDK 1.2 or higher library to compile (for Java & 1.2 compilers, this can be
done using any Java 2 rt.jar library instead of classes.zip in -classpath option at compile time).
PJA Toolkit library weighs 140 Ko at run-time.
Download PJA Toolkit
PJA Toolkit library is free under . It is supplied with :
pja.jar and pjatools.jar JAR libraries
Java source files
Javadoc documentation
a FAQ list
versions history
PJANativeToolkitComparison a demo to compare at screen the rendering
of the PJA Toolkit and the native toolkit of your system. A speed meter
allows to see the average duration of drawing with PJA Toolkit compared to
PJAToolkitDemo a demo that creates GIF files using the PJA Toolkit.
NativeToolkitDemo a demo that creates GIF files using the native toolkit of your system.
PJADemo a demo that creates GIF files using PJA
Toolkit and a restrictive SecurityManager that
prevents the use of awt library.
PJAFontCapture a Font capture utility to generate font files (to avoid copyright problems on fonts, no font is provided). You can use any machine
where AWT works to generate these portable files.
TeksSurveyPie an exemple of a servlet generating a survey pie as seen bellow.
Servlet host providers can use it for their customers, if they provide copyright information and a link to
on their web site and other documentation.
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