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 Time series chart.

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


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.jfree_charts.tests;



import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;



import org.jfree.chart.ChartFactory;

import org.jfree.chart.ChartFrame;

import org.jfree.chart.JFreeChart;

import org.jfree.chart.axis.DateAxis;

import org.jfree.chart.plot.XYPlot;

import org.jfree.data.time.Day;

import org.jfree.data.time.TimeSeries;

import org.jfree.data.time.TimeSeriesCollection;



public class TimeSeriesExample {



  public static void main(String[] args) {



    // Prepare the data set

    TimeSeries population = new TimeSeries("Indian Population");

    population.add(new Day(1, 3, 1961), 439234771);

    population.add(new Day(1, 3, 1971), 548159652);

    population.add(new Day(1, 3, 1981), 683329097);

    population.add(new Day(1, 3, 1991), 843387888);

    population.add(new Day(1, 3, 2001), 1028610328);

    population.add(new Day(1, 3, 2011), 1210193422);

    TimeSeriesCollection dataset = new TimeSeriesCollection(population);

    

    // Create the chart

    JFreeChart chart = ChartFactory.createTimeSeriesChart(

        "Population of India", "Date", "Population", dataset,

        true, true, false);

    

    //Get the plot and set date format

    XYPlot plot = chart.getXYPlot();

    DateAxis axis = (DateAxis) plot.getDomainAxis();

      axis.setDateFormatOverride(new SimpleDateFormat("MMM-yyyy"));



    // Render the frame

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

    chartFrame.setVisible(true);

    chartFrame.setSize(600, 300);

  }

}