Sunday, May 10, 2009

Charting

I've been asked to survey some of the existing charting java libraries to see which library best matches are requirements and will not take a tremendous amount of time or effort. After reviewing the API's, documentation, tutorials, etc. I recommended JFreeChart for the following reasons:
1) It is well known which can yield more credibility than other lesser known charting libraries.
2) I have some experience with JFreeChart already so hopefully that will reduce the amount of time needed to integrate the library.
3) It has all of the charting features that we will require: pie charts, histograms, and scatter-plots.
4) It also produces "pretty" charts.

Of course this is one aspect of the GUI that we will need to work on.

1 comment:

  1. Yes JFreeChart would be completely fine I think. Does the library have vectorial export btw ?

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