Creating a Graph/Chart is JSP

[Somnath Mallick]

Hi Everyone,

I have to create a JSP/Servlet code where i have to read an excel sheet and generate a graph report and display in a JSP. Could you please let me know where to start off with this code.

[Bear Bibeault]

There is nothing in JSP that can help you. You'll need to find an open source or commercial charting package to use

[Ulf Dittmer]

Is the problem to read an XSL file, or to create a chart from its data?

[Pat Farrell]

JFreeChart will make about any kind of chart/graph that folks need, its open source, etc.

There is a wrapper, I forget the name this second, that lets you write JSP code to access the server-side generated JFreeChart

Works well.

[Prafulla N. Patil]

JFree Chart to create charts and Apache POI to read XLS file.

http://poi.apache.org/

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/

[Somnath Mallick]

Thanks guys! I was just going through JFreeChart! Its a bit complicated for starters. Are there any tutorials out there! The developers guide costs $40!

[Pat Farrell]

There are online tutorials. Its actually fairly easy to use, but since it is powerful, it has a zillion options, and they can get confusing. I remember it took me a day or so to understand how to approach it.

Sorry, I don't remember the link, but I'm sure there are some.

The manual is how the guy who writes it supports himself, which seems fair to me.

Pat

[Bear Bibeault]

Pat Farrell wrote:There is a wrapper, I forget the name this second, that lets you write JSP code to access the server-side generated JFreeChart

cewolf

[Pat Farrell]

Bear Bibeault wrote:cewolf

Yep, that's it. Works well.

I have not tried it in a heavy load server environment, but for light load, its great. So for a school assignment or a demo, I'd use it in a minute. Perhaps not for the next Twitter or FaceBook implementation.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Since cewolf is sort of my project now, I'd like to point out that for the time being, the version you should be using is not the one on SourceForge, but the one you can find linked in my signature. It has numerous bug fixes and new features compared to the "official" version on SourceForge. Eventually those changes will find their way to the official distribution (for which I'm a committer), but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

[Sidharth Pallai]

I have a critical scenario , where i need to display 10,000 or more IP and their corresponding reported Alarms in a JFreechart. Am in a doubt , is there any way to plot 10,000 or more IP in a chart. Is there some other approach to plot such a buly IP's just to know each IP's reported alarm. Seeking for any response/ideas

[Ulf Dittmer]

Um, 10000 data points in a single chart? How is supposed to find any particular data item of interest?