Welcome to ILOG JViews Charts!

Java user interface developers often need to include a 2D chart as part of the overall display. This chart may need to be deployed as a desktop application, an applet, and/or as Web thin client. Configuring a chart display should be easy, much like any other Swing component. However, developers need to be sure that the chart they include can be completely customized to meet their specific requirements, therefore they need an open API.

ILOG JViews Charts is ideal for this. It combines a rapid application development tool for quickly configuring a chart display, with a comprehensive Software Development Kit (SDK) for providing specialized functionality. Developers using JViews Charts to put together their displays will typically start with Designer, a point-and-click editor that defines most aspects of the look and feel. The output of Designer is a project file that is loaded into the application at runtime. If further fine-tuning is desired, the complete SDK is also included. With ILOG JViews Charts, user interface developers have both the ease and rapid application development that Designer offers, along with the power and flexibility of a full-featured Java API!

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ILOG JViews Charts offers a wide range of features for helping user interface developers create state-of-the art displays. These include:

• Designer for JViews Charts, a point-and-click editor for specifying most aspects of the display, including the data source and the "rules" for defining how the chart will appear on the screen under different data conditions;
• Runtime customizability of views, to let end users change the appearance of the chart display in order to improve insight or reflect a personal preference; Figure 2. Designer for JViews Charts
• A full spectrum of charts display types, including XY, bars, pie, bubble, financial, stacked, and many more types of charts that can be displayed in 2D and 3D;
• A treemap view, an innovative approach to viewing large quantities of data, helping users better analyze and understand the data;
Figure 3. Treemap Example
• Advanced display services, including video-like zooming and scrolling, automatic scale adjustment, multiple scales, real-time updating, load-on-demand for large data sets, dynamic styling and so on;
• Easy thin-client deployment, using Ajax-enabled Java Server Faces that drastically reduces the complexity of writing interactive charts for the Web. These JSF components are available as both DHTML and SVG clients. (The SVG clients especially well-suited for real-time updates.)
• A powerful Swing-like model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, providing clear separation between data and its screen representations, automatic notifications, and view synchronization; and
• A full-featured SDK, for the ultimate control in customizing all aspects of the chart display and interaction.