Display Flowchart in JSP

[Prafulla N. Patil]

i want to display flowchart in JSP page (in j2ee web application)
is there is any tool available for this

also please tell me weather i should go for applet (is there any tool available to display it in applet )

Thanks in advance

Prafulla

[Ben Souther]

JSP doesn't ship with anything for building charts or reports but there are plenty of libraries out there.

JasperReports is the first one that comes to mind.

[Prafulla N. Patil]

can you explain in detail how it is possible with jasper charts
and is there is nay other option?

Thanks,

Prafulla

[Ulf Dittmer]

I think JasperReports is more for generating reports, not charts. One of the common charting libraries may have the right kind of chart; check out JFreeReport and JChart2D (both on SourceForge).

[Prafulla N. Patil]

can you suggest any other tools or libraries than this

[abhishek paul]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
check out JFreeReport and JChart2D (both on SourceForge).

..only i wonder if you can deploy your application which incorporates either of the above in aproduction server.Arnt there any licensing/purchasing issues ??..also would like to know if any of our fellow ranchers came accross any issues related to performance of these charts and graphs..

[Ulf Dittmer]

Both JChart2D and JFreeChart are licensed under the LGPL, so I'm not sure what license/purchase issues you have in mind.

If performance is a problem depends on the concurrency that you encounter in your web app. Image generation does take a bit of CPU time, so if 100 users request charts simultaneously, there will probably be a delay.
[ October 16, 2007: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]