Best Java charting package

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agrau

I plan to do some vey basic charting of historical EOD data in a Java app I am currently writing and look for hints as to which open-source package is the best to use.

By best I mean:
- few (if any) dependencies on other packages
- memory and filesize footprint

The packages I found on sourceforge are all universal, multi-purpose and often come with a bundle of other jar's needed. As I just want price charting these all seem a bit oversized for me.

Is anybody aware of some other package I should look at. Or even share some code with me?

Also, is there some charting package that would allow point&figure charting? I currently use a JTable for this, but maybe there exists some other package already?

Thanks in advance,

agrau
 
I wish you folks would get together and buy the API from J-Trader and write a front-end trade execution app for it.

The person/people that do this would among the first to do this and offer it to the thousands of retail traders that use Jtrader.

Look at Ninja Trader and Button-Trader who seem to have the best front-ends for TWS platform from IB. These 2 companies seem to be operating and succeeding.

Michael B.
 
Thanks so far for the responeses! ET truly is a great place to meet people and get help.

ramora:
Thx for your pointer, but I feel I have not made myself clear enough. It's that I need the charting capabilities in my own application, ie. I need the components to build upon myself. Specifically, I want to free myself from any supplier dependency. But still I agree that my subject line was quite misleadingly formulated.

trader42:
I agree, JFreeChart is sort of a swiss army knife for charting. Others are listed here http://directory.google.com/Top/Com...nguages/Java/Class_Libraries/Graphics/Charts/ and elsewhere. Still I hope to find something more slim, as I fear these libraries carry too much overhead for the simple task I am looking at. Even then, thanks again.

Best,
agrau
 
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