First glance at jfreechart

Introduction to jfreechart

Jfreechart is a pure Java graphics library,Mainly used to generate images

Is a popular JavaFree Open-source chart tools

Jfreechart is an independent software package and can be used independently. Of course, it can also be used in struts1.x.

For developers, it can be easily displayed in Web applications.Charts of Professional Quality

 

Download jfreechart

In http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart
Click on the rightProject page at SourceForge

Link

Then jump to the http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreechart
Page

Click againView All files

Or downloadBrowse all files

You will see links to the three downloaded files.

Jfreechart, documentation, and jcommon are the dependent libraries of jfreechart.

HereJfreechart-1.0.9.zip is mandatory

, AndJfreechart-1.0.9-javadocs.zip is recommended download

Jfreechart-1.0.9.zip already contains jcommon. jar, but stillRecommended download jcommon-1.0.12.zip

It contains the source code and apidoc

 

Jfreechart Preview

ExtractedJfreechart-1.0.9 folder

There is a 734kbJfreechart-1.0.9-demo.jar

File

This isExecutable files

Double-click it to view some charts supported by jfreechart.

 

Use ant to generate jfreechart help document

SetJfreechart-1.0.9.zip

Decompress the package to get the jfreechart-1.0.9 folder

In the jfreechart-1.0.9 folder, you can seeAnt folder

There isBuild. xml

File

After checking build. XML, we found that there is<Target/>

Target

The role of this target isGenerate the jfreechart api html pages

Generate HTML documents

The premise is to install ant on the system, and it is recommended to add ant to classpath

Then open the command prompt,Unzip jfreechart-1.0.9.zip to the root directory of drive D.

SwitchD:/jfreechart-1.0.9/jfreechart-1.0.9/ant>

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Then executeAnt javadoc

Command

Similarly, in jcommon, you can use ant to generate its javadoc documentation.