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Introduction

Cewolf can be used inside a Servlet/JSP based web +application to embed complex graphical charts of all kinds (e.g. line, +pie, bar chart, plots, etc.) into a web page. Therefore it provides a +full featured tag library to define all properties of the chart (colors, +strokes, legend, etc.). Thus the JSP which embedds the chart is not +polluted with any java code. Everything is described with XML conform +tags.

Cewolf is based on JFreeChart and +uses it's rendering engine to render the final chart image into the +clients response stream. No files are created on server side. Everything +is based on lightweight session objects and dynamic data analysis. +Cewolf consists of one servlet which handles the chart rendering and a +taglibrary which translates the chart definition included in the JSP +into an HTML img tag which consults the rendering servlet for retrieval +of the appropriate chart.

Simce the project has been funded in the middle of 2002 there have +been more then 150.000 page views and 16.000 downloads +(Sourceforge activity max: >99,7%).

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Fully free and open 100% Java compliant
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LGPL license
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no charges
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no restrictions
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Support on SourceForge Forums
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short development and upgrade circles
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no usage of native libraries
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should run in every J2EE compliant server or servlet +container
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extensive usage of available open source projects
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Full featured Chart Tag Library Huge number of different Charts
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no java coding inside the JSP needed
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XML description of a chart
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design time validation of chart tags
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extensive tag documentation
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Line [XY]
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[3D] Pie
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[3D] Horizonal Bar
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[3D] Vertical [XY] Bar
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[3D] Stacked Vertical Bar
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Area [XY]
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Scatter Plot
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Candlestick
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High Low
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Gantt
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Meter
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Overlaid
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Combined
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Fully free and open	100% Java compliant
+ + LGPL license + no charges + no restrictions + Support on SourceForge Forums + short development and upgrade circles + +	+ + no usage of native libraries + should run in every J2EE compliant server or servlet +container + extensive usage of available open source projects + +
Full featured Chart Tag Library	Huge number of different Charts
+ + no java coding inside the JSP needed + XML description of a chart + design time validation of chart tags + extensive tag documentation + +	+ + Line [XY] + [3D] Pie + [3D] Horizonal Bar + [3D] Vertical [XY] Bar + [3D] Stacked Vertical Bar + Area [XY] + Scatter Plot + Candlestick + High Low + Gantt + Meter + Overlaid + Combined + +

Example

You can simply define a chart by including a chart tag into your JSP +like this:

<cewolf:chart 
    id="XYChart"
    type="xy"
    title="XYChart" 
    <cewolf:gradient>
        <cewolf:point x="0" y="0" color="#FFFFFF"/>
        <cewolf:point x="0" y="300" color="#C8C8C8"/>
    </cewolf:gradient>
    <cewolf:data>
        <cewolf:producer id="xyData"/>
    </cewolf:data>
</cewolf:chart>
<cewolf:img chartid="XYChart" renderer="cewolf" width="400" height="300"/>

This results in a rendered chart like this:

As you can see only the view is defined in the JSP page. The model +is produced by a so called DataProducer which must be available in the +pageContext of the JSP.

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