FAQ

General Use

Why JET - yet another open-source econometrics library?

While it is true that there are several open-source econometrics libraries available, most notably GRETL, none of these were written in Java, thus making the integration in Java applications very cumbersome (and nullifying the benefit of cross-platform portability).

JET aims to be easily embeddable in any Java application and the user can pick and choose the module which are most convenient from the toolkit.

Another important differentiator of JET is that is released under a Apache 2.0 license, and not under GPL, thus making it much more commercially-friendly.

System requirements

Which Java version is required to use JET?

1.5 (aka Java 5.0) or later. Get Java for your platform.