BE THE CODER > Charts > JFreeChart Examples

JFreeChart is a free and pure java chart library for creating professional quality charts. This requires the libraries jfreechart-1.0.13.jar and jcommon-1.0.8.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows creating a simple area chart.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jfree_charts/tests/SimpleAreaChart.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jfree_charts.tests;



import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;

import org.jfree.chart.ChartFrame;

import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;

import org.jfree.chart.plot.PlotOrientation;

import org.jfree.data.category.DefaultCategoryDataset;



public class SimpleAreaChart {



  public static void main(String arg[]) {



    // Prepare the data set

    DefaultCategoryDataset dataset = new DefaultCategoryDataset();



    dataset.addValue(8, "Power3", "Two");

    dataset.addValue(4, "Power2", "Two");

    dataset.addValue(2, "Power1", "Two");



    dataset.addValue(27, "Power3", "Three");

    dataset.addValue(9, "Power2", "Three");

    dataset.addValue(3, "Power1", "Three");



    dataset.addValue(64, "Power3", "Four");

    dataset.addValue(16, "Power2", "Four");

    dataset.addValue(4, "Power1", "Four");

    

    // Create the chart

    JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createAreaChart(

        "Number Power Area Chart", "Number", "Power Value",

        dataset, PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);



    // Render the frame

    ChartFrame chartFrame = new ChartFrame("Simple Area Chart", chart);

    chartFrame.setVisible(true);

    chartFrame.setSize(400, 300);

  }

}