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 XY area chart.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jfree_charts/tests/XYAreaChart.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.xy.XYDataset;

import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeries;

import org.jfree.data.xy.XYSeriesCollection;



public class XYAreaChart {



  public static void main(String arg[]) {



    // Prepare the data set

    XYSeries xySeries = new XYSeries("Number & Square Chart");

    xySeries.add(1, 1);

    xySeries.add(2, 4);

    xySeries.add(3, 9);

    xySeries.add(4, 16);

    xySeries.add(5, 25);

    xySeries.add(6, 36);

    XYDataset xyDataset = new XYSeriesCollection(xySeries);

    

    //Create the chart

    JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createXYAreaChart(

        "Number & Square Chart", "Number", "Square", xyDataset,

        PlotOrientation.VERTICAL, true, true, false);



    //Render the frame

    ChartFrame chartFrame = new ChartFrame("XYArea Chart", chart);

    chartFrame.setVisible(true);

    chartFrame.setSize(300, 300);



  }

}

XY Area Chart