What are the available ways/resources to create jpeg (or pdf) graphs/charts using java

Question

Hi,
I'm looking for ways to create JPEG(or PDF) graphs/charts using JAVA. Any suggestions?

Ultimately I want to make a PDF report, but I figured that even if I get the graph in JPEG then I can use a JPEG to PDF converter to make it a PDF.

Thanks.

Answer 1

• Jasper Reports
• iText
• JFreeChart

Answer 2

We are using JFreeChart for this. I do not know of other options, but this has served us well.

Answer 3

It is NOT the best idea to "convert" a jpeg to PDF, because the JPEG still contains of pixels then. If you can, do produce vector charts which will look much nicer and produce a smaller PDF.

See these sites:

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-svggrph/
• http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/index.html (can produce PDF directly)
• http://www.jfimagine.com/order.html (free for non-commercial)

I would prefer JFreeChart, since I used it successfully for years, and it always was stable and reliable.