Opneness of JFreechart

[Wei Jiang]

Hi JFreechart team,

JFreechart is realy good. I have been using it since version 0.7.

I checked verion 0.94 and found that some class variables have
been changed from protected to private. Such as OverlainXYPlot.subplots
and JFreechart.plot.

I think that it would be more open if such variables are protected. User
may extend original classes.
I know it is open source, but it would be easier if
users do not have to modify the original code.

[David Gilbert]

For most of these attributes, there are get/set methods, so you can still extend the original classes without modifying the original code. If there is an attribute that you require access to, but it doesn't have get/set methods, just raise it as a feature request.

Regards,

DG