Java : Chart Example Programs

JFreeChart Chart Title Underline StrikeThrough Example

We saw a quick introduction to chart title formatting options in the previous example. This tutorial is an extension of the previous one where we will cover more advanced chart title formatting options. We will discuss various options that are available in JFreechart for decorating your chart title with examples. It is good to learn that these customization options do exist for us on the chart, ....

JCharts Bar Chart Servlet Java Example Code

This tutorial discusses how to create bar chart servlet using jChart Java API. In the last example, we described how to create bar chart servlet using JFreeChart Java API. This explanation uses jChart API and we will provide a step by step guide on getting this done in jChart. We will be using jCharts-0.7.5 version of the library to create the chart, so make sure you download a copy of the ....

JFreeChart Servlet Example Tutorial - Pie Chart Java - Part 1

In this tutorial, we will provide an example of using JFreeChart with Java Servlets API and create a web application that will display a chart on the browser when invoked from the client end. I will try to keep this as simple as possible so that anybody can run this example on the fly and see the power of JFreeChart in action. I will be using Tomcat 7.0.14 as my web server and you are free to use ....

JFreeChart Pie Chart Example Java Tutorial

In the previous blog post, we described how to create a pie chart using JFreeChart and stamp the Pie Chart into a PDF document using iText Java library. After I completed the last post, I got fascinated towards the different options available in JFreeChart to beautify my pie chart. And the result, JFreeChart does not let you go disappointed and it provides quite a lot of configuration options for ....

JFreeChart XYDataset Line Chart Java Example

XYDataset Line Chart In this post, we will discuss how to create a XY line graph in JFreeChart by using XYDataset interface in Java. This is different to our previous tutorial, that dealt with pure line chart creation in Java. We will implement three series of line charts in the XY line chart, and also discuss methods to adjust the range of charts to make our charts more meaningful in display ....

JFreeChart Chart Width Superscript Kerning Example

This is the last set in the tutorial series on formatting chart titles in JFreeChart API using Java. We have been discussing most of the formatting options in length so far, and we will cover a few other things in this tutorial. The options we will be covering in this tutorial are listed below: 1) Extending the width of Chart Title 2) Superscript based chart titles 3) Kerning of chart title ....

JFreeChart Chart Title Bold Font Color Example

In the last tutorial, we discussed briefly on some of the chart formatting options in JFreeChart, that included underline / strikethrough of chart title. In this tutorial, we will focus on some more chart title formatting options. Precisely, we will be looking at the following chart title options: 1) Making Chart title bold 2) Changing the chart title foreground color 3) Changing the chart ....

JFreeChart Chart Title setTitle Example Program

In this tutorial, we will explain how to add chart title to a chart using JFreechart, using example Java code. You may be wondering, what is there in a chart title. In plain simple language, it is a string added to JFreechart object. However, there is a wide range of customization options available for the chart title. You many not have a real requirement to customize chart title, but this ....

JFreeChart border width stroke formatting Example

We introduced the options to specify chart border color in JFreechart in the previous tutorial. You can specify a custom border for your chart. At the end of the tutorial, we mentioned that you can specify a gradient color as the border . It is also possible to create a chart with a specific texture. In this post, we will focus on strokes. We will describe how to change the border width of ....

JFreechart chart setBorderPaint Java Example

Up until now, we know how to create a JFreechart bar chart or pie chart. We got the basic examples right. In this tutorial, we will see how to customize the bar chart we created. A chart not only contains the core diagram, it also has legend, border, data table to name a few. And you may have requirements to customize them to suit to your project needs. In this tutorial we will focus ....

Convert XML to Pie Chart JFreeChart Java Example

In our previous tutorial, we explained how to convert XML to a Bar Chart using JFreeChart Java API. At the end of the example, we mentioned that it is also possible to create a pie chart from input XML using JFreechart. However, we provided only a sample input XML and did not that further. In this example tutorial , we will go a step further and cover how to create a pie chart from XML data in ....

Convert XML to Chart JFreeChart Java Example

In the previous post, we explained how to create a bar chart over a JDBC connection with database. Upon completion of the post, I got a few questions about creating bar chart from a XML file. I thought I would explain this over a tutorial and in this example, let us look how to use JFreechart Java API to create bar chart with the input coming from XML file. JFreeChart library has built in ....

Create bar chart servlet Java JFreechart Example

In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a Java servlet using JFreeChart that can return a stacked bar chart with a simple example. JFreechart is a very common and widely used Java library to create a wide range of charts. At the end of this example tutorial, you will really appreciate how easy it is to create the chart. The code is fully commented so that you can get a better ....

Java Bar Chart Example Code Program

There are many Java libraries that are available open source to create charts in Java. The most prominent ones are JFreechart and jCharts. In this tutorial, we will describe how to create a clustered bar chart in Java using the following Java libraries (with full working Java code examples) : JFreeChart jChart We will cover creating bar charts with jChart2D, jzy3d, jopenchart and jensoft ....

Index of JFreeChart Tutorials

JFreeChart SVG XY Line Chart Graph Java Example JFreechart SVG Line Chart Graph Example JFreeChart setBackgroundPaint / setBackgroundAlpha Example JFreeChart XYDataset Line Chart Java Example JFreeChart Java Line Chart Example Create SVG Bar Chart - JFreeChart Java Example Create SVG Chart with JFreeChart - Java Example Program - Batik JFreeChart ....

Create 3D Pie Chart PDF Example iText JFreeChart Java Tutorial

In this post, we will provide a working Java Example code explaining how to create a 3D (3 Dimensional) Pie Chart using JFreeChart and stamp the chart into a PDF document using iText PDF API. This tutorial is similar to the one we described earlier to create a 2D Pie Chart in PDF file. The difference lies in the approach to create the chart, as we will be using a different method to generate the ....

Ajax JFreeChart Servlet Example - Java Tutorial

In our previous, we provided a HTML form which upon submitting invoked a Java Servlet to generate a dynamic pie chart (Using JFreeChart API) and provide it back to the user as a PNG image file.If you closely inspect the HTML code, you will come to know that it does a full page refresh every time it generates a PNG image. This is because, it submits the entire form data back to our servlet which ....

JFreeChart Dynamic Pie Chart Example Java Servlet Tutorial

We have been discussing how to invoke JFreeChart using a Java Servlet and paint the resulting chart on the browser for sometime now. In the examples discussed so far, the charts created were static in nature; i.e. the servlet was not able to accept user inputs and generate dynamic chart as an output. In this post, we will provide dynamic inputs to our chart servlet using a HTML form and use the ....

JFreeChart Servlet Example Tutorial - Pie Chart Java - Part 2

In Part 1 of the post, we created a Java Servlet and compiled it. This Java Servlet was designed to accept an incoming request and return a pie chart as an image, after creating it in JFreeChart API. We have the Java Code available with us and in this post, we will see how to deploy this servlet and load the necessary supporting Jar files and see our JFreeChart Servlet in action. Follow the steps ....

JFreeChart Pie Chart Tutorial - Example Exploded Chart

In this tutorial, we will explain how to create a colorful exploded pie chart with label values displayed on the chart using JFreeChart with an example. We will also describe how to convert the resulting chart to a PNG image file using JFreeChart. We had earlier provided a tutorial that described how to color a pie chart using JFreechart with working examples. You can consider this post as an ....

Insert Pie Chart PDF iText Example JFreeChart Java Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will provide an example through which we will create a Pie Chart in Java, and then stamp this Pie Chart inside a PDF document using iText API. This is an extension of our tutorial on iText that explained how to create a bar chart in a PDF document using iText. For this Pie Chart example, we will use JFreeChart Java API. The structural flow for us would be to create a Pie ....

Insert 3D Chart in PDF JFreeChart iText Java Example Tutorial

We earlier discussed how to insert a 2D chart into a PDF document using iText and JFreeChart.This example can be easily extended towards creating a 3D chart using JFreeChart and inserting the 3D chart into the PDF document using iText. If you follow the Java Code in the earlier example, you just have to make one minor method change in the code to get a 3D chart for you. Can it be much easy than ....

PDF Add Chart iText Example JFreeChart Java Tutorial

In this blog tutorial, we will provide a simple Java example that will explain how to create a 2D (2 Dimensional) chart inside a PDF file using iText library. To create a chart inside a PDF file, we will be using JFreeChart API as well. So, when you run this example you will need the JFreeChart Jar files in your class path. The files of our interest would be the following; jfreechart-1.0.13.jar ....

JFreeChart SVG XY Line Chart Graph Java Example

SVG XY Line Chart / Graph in JFreeChart In this post, we will explain how to create a XY Line Chart in SVG Format, in Java using JFreeChart library. We will use JFreechart to create the XY Line chart and Apache Batik to write the created chart as a SVG output file. The example will be on the same lines as of our line chart one, and you have to make sure you have all the JAR files (both ....

JFreechart SVG Line Chart Graph Example

SVG Line Chart / Graph in Java Using JFreeChart In this tutorial, we will explain how to use JFreeChart library to create a SVG line chart / graph in Java, with an example. JFreeChart component would be used to create the line chart and it will be rendered as SVG using Apache Batik library. You need to have all the JAR files supplied with JFreeChart and Batik distribution for this example to ....

JFreeChart setBackgroundPaint / setBackgroundAlpha Example

Set Background Paint - Transparency for JFreeChart graphs: In this post, we will introduce two popular methods in JFreechart Plot options, that will help you to set the background paint color of chart and specify the color transparency as a value between 0 and 1, with number of examples. We will provide only clipped version of code and you need to use the XY Line Chart tutorial, for seeing ....

JFreeChart Java Line Chart Example

Java Line Chart Example In this tutorial, we will see how to create a line chart / graph in Java, by using JFreechart open source library. I must admit that the more I write about JFreechart, the more I'm impressed with the way it provides different customization options to your chart. We will create a static PNG chart image in this tutorial. In later posts, we will discuss how to create SVG ....

Create SVG Bar Chart - JFreeChart Java Example

SVG Bar Charts in Java - Introduction In the last tutorial, we described how to create a SVG Pie Chart in Java using JFreeChart / Batik with an example. Creating a SVG bar chart is no different to this approach. We just have to change the base JFreeChart code generation logic to create a bar chart instead of a Pie Chart. Also, this is across any type of chart you create using JFreeChart, you ....