BE THE CODER > Charts > JFreeChart Examples > Horizontal Bar Chart Example

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 horizontal bar chart.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/jfree_charts/tests/HorizontalBarChart.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 HorizontalBarChart {



  public static void main(String arg[]) {



    // Prepare the data set

    DefaultCategoryDataset barDataset = new DefaultCategoryDataset();

    barDataset.setValue(26, "Drinks", "Coca-Cola");

    barDataset.setValue(20, "Drinks", "Pepsi");

    barDataset.setValue(12, "Drinks", "Gold Spot");

    barDataset.setValue(14, "Drinks", "Slice");

    barDataset.setValue(18, "Drinks", "Appy Fizz");

    barDataset.setValue(10, "Drinks", "Limca");



    //Create the chart

    JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createBarChart(

        "Soft Drink Bar Chart", "Drink", "Share", barDataset,

        PlotOrientation.HORIZONTAL, false, true, false);

    

    //Render the frame

    ChartFrame chartFrame = new ChartFrame("Horizontal Bar Chart", chart);

    chartFrame.setVisible(true);

    chartFrame.setSize(560, 350);

  }

  

}