What are open source Charting and Reporting tools in Java ?

1. JFreeChart

• Free chart library developed in Java
• allows to generate professional charts like, Pie (2D and 3D), Bar, Line, Area, Bubble, Time series, Candle stick, Pareto, Gantt, Meter, Symbol, Wafer map charts etc.

2. JCCKit

• The Java Chart Constuction Kit (JCCKit)
• creates scientific charts as well as plots
• Small (< 100Kb) Java library and a very flexible framework

3. BIRT

• An eclipse-based open source reporting system for web applications 
• Free licence
• It has two main components : Report designer based on Eclipse, and
  A Runtime component that you can add to your application server. 
• It also offers a charting engine that lets you add charts to your own application.

4. jCharts

• 100% Java based charting utility
• This package has been designed from the ground up by volunteers for displaying charts via Servlets, JSP's, and Swing apps.

5. Jasper Reports

• Powerful ; Open source Java reporting tool
• Written in Java
• can deliver rich content onto the screen, pixel-perfect reports to the printer or into PDF, HTML, XLS, CSV and XML files
• creates page oriented, ready to print documents - Simple and Flexible
• allows access to data from any source of data

 

6. Pentaho - BI (Business Intelligence)

• Enterprise-class Business Intelligence (BI) - including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining and workflow
• incudes Eclipse BIRT, JasperReports, Mondrian, JPivot, scheduling, web services, busienss rules
• Simple but Rich interface useful for business analysts and Report developers

7. Windward

• reporting and document generation software suite 
• used in document intensive industries like insurance, finance, Legal, and HR

 

8. Cewolf

• relies on JFreeChart and its rendering engine
• can be used inside a Servlet/JSP based web application 
• used to embed complex graphical charts of all kinds (e.g. line, pie, bar chart, plots, etc.) into a web page.
• provides a full featured tag library to define all properties of the chart (colors, strokes, legend, etc.)
• The JSP which embedds the chart is not polluted with any java code.
  Everything is described with XML conform tags.
• Everything takes place in client side with on file created on the server side.

9. JGraphT

• Free Java graph library that provides mathematical graph-theory objects and algorithms. 
• supports various types of graphs including : directed / undirected, labelled, weighted / unweighted, simple-graphs, multigraphs, pseudographs, sub-graphs, unmodifiable, listenable 
• can create graphs based on: Strings, URLs, XML documents, etc.

10. JChart2d

• A Java swing widget (JComponent) for precise runtime-dynamic display of tupels in form of a 2D stripe chart.
• Appropriate for engineering task where precision is more important than presentations. 
• Key features are : Minimal configuration effort, Automatic scaling and labeling, Thread-safeness, A clean and extendible API and extensive documentation.

11. iReport

• A visual reporting tool based on JasperReports
• Written in 100% pure java
• You can manage charts, images, subreports etc. 
• Data can be retrieved using JDBC, Hibernate, TableModels, JavaBeans, XML, CSV etc. 
• It supports output in PDF, RTF, Open office, XHTML, DOX, XML, XLS, CSV, HTML, Java2D, Text etc.

12. JOpenChart

• Free and Open source Java library
• Toolkit for creating different kinds of charts and embedding them into web applications or Swing applications.

13. JFreeReport

• Free Java report library 
• Full on-screen print preview 
• Data obtained via Swing's TableModel interface (making it easy to print data directly from your application) 
• XML-based report definitions 
• Output to the screen, printer or various export formats (PDF, HTML, CSV, Excel, plain text) 
• support for servlets (uses the JFreeReport extensions)

14. OpenReports

• Flexible open source web reporting solution, Simple to use
• can generate dynamic reports in a browser
• uses JasperReports 
• support for several reporting engines that are open source like JFreeReport, JasperReports, Eclipse BIRT and JXLS

 

15. Datavision

• Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports 
• Reports can be designed using a drag-and-drop GUI
• They may be run, viewed, and printed from the application or exported as HTML, XML, PDF, LaTeX2e, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. 
• The output files produced by LaTeX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and more.

 

16. JMagallanes

• Open source end user application for OLAP and Dynamic reports 
• written in Java/J2EE
• combines static reports, pivot table and charts
• It reads from SQL and other data sources.

 

17. FreeReportBuilder

• Application to create a simple report quickly 
• can work with any database that has a JDBC driver 
• include FreeQueryBuilder to create SQL queries without directly writing SQL 
• create graphs from the report because include JFreeChart
• can load, save report in xml format 
• allows drag & drop of any component and adding images 
• can define Headers and footers, group headers and footers. 
• Nested Report
• You can insert "Retrieval arguments" for to run a same report with different parameters on the WHERE clause
• Print/Save the results of report

 

Other tools

DocumentBurster

• takes PDF reports as input and bursts them based on meta-data
• Generated documents can be delivered on a variety of destinations like email, ftp, fax, archive and many more. 
• works on all versions of Windows and most of the UNIX systems. 
• works by reading meta-data which is easily included in the document to indicate the splitting and delivery methods to be used. 
• Easy to define your own custom delivery targets with the help of a plug-in architecture
• Easy to define simple or complex schedules for bursting 
• Command line support so it is easy to automate the bursting of reports

SWTJasperViewer

• A JasperReports viewer component for SWT/JFace based applications and Eclipse plug-ins 
• designed with reusability
• developed as part of the JasperAssistant report designer where it's used for report preview.

 

ART

• Lightweight, multi platform web based query tool and reporting environment
• Easy customizable, support graphs, export resultset in various formats via plug-ins

OpenI

• A simple web application that does out-of-box OLAP reporting
• Its a J2EE web application to build and publish interactive reports from OLAP data sources
• uses JPivot, Mondrian, R Project, JFreeChart and JasperReports

Chart2D

• Library written in Java
• used for adding 2D charts to Java programs

prefuse

• A Java-based toolkit for building interactive information visualization applications. 
• supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction.
• provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity.

QNPlot

• provides graphs of one or more functions as Swing components.
• can render large amounts of real-time data 
• Coordinates are of type BigDecimal for arbitrary-precision 
• High performance 
• All classes are completely thread-safe 
• The axis has schemes to automatically choose step sizes for the index