Stand alone charts in GWT

Question

Hey all,
I've been trying to get pretty charts to work in GWT on our internal network.
Playing around with GWT-Ext's charts is nice, but it requires flash and is really messy to control (it seems buggy, in general).
I'd like to hear about something that works with the least amount of dependencies and it also must work without a connection to the web (so, Google' charts API isn't a solution).

Edit: Indeed, I would rather a library that is all client-side.

Thank you all!

Answer 1

Do you want something that has a server side component or entirely client driven? The best ones I have seen are all flash, alas. I have done little tricks with JS and GWT before, but there is only sophisticated I will get before I go hunting for a library to do it for me.

Answer 2

There is also "sparklines" - they are available in lots of flavours (very simple charts though).

Answer 3

Googling for "GWT +sparklines" has gotten me to gchart, which seems like what I need.
From what I understand - it's all client side and requires nothing more than their JAR file.

Answer 4

gchart looks seriously awesome. Go with it !

Answer 5

If you're looking for client-side check out flotr which is based on prototype javascript library or flot which is based on jQuery. Both work well, though flot seems like its got a bigger backing.

Answer 6

If you are willing to go with flash, XML/SWF is a wonderful tool

Answer 7

+1 flot, requires jQuery though, so might not play well with GWT, I haven't used that.

Answer 8

Another flash option, with a pre-built GWT integration - Open Flash Chart / ofcgwt.

Answer 9

I think that gwt-chart is a better framework for you.

Answer 10

http://code.google.com/p/ext-ux-ofcgxt/ is a nice option if you're using ext-gwt

Answer 11

I'm building a GWT chart library based on Flot: http://gflot.googlecode.com I hope you find it useful. Contact me if you have any questions.

Answer 12

well.. i've used yahoo ui chart library (which GWT-Ext uses internally). Pretty neat solution, in the beta stage though.

Let us know the conclusion you arrive at..