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How to draw Line Charts in Java Swing [duplicate]

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I want to draw a Line Chart out of a double Array, what's the best way to do it in swing? Is there something like in JavaFX?:
series.getData().add(new XYChart.Data(1, 23));
Or should is the best way to implement a Java FX Line Chart in Swing? It's not a duplicate, because I want to know what the better is to go.

Use a JFX Panel on a normal JPanel, in the Oracle Documenation you can finde more Information about it.

JFXPanel is the component that will help Java Fx content to embed in Java swing application
See This. You can read the tutorial here

Which one is better?
If you will use JavaFx just delete Swing in your project. JavaFx is new and have a lot of components fast and useful. Swing is always behind it.
Including two jars?
It is like going somehere with two car. When you add JavaFx to your Swing project you have to find compatible jars Swing and JavaFx. And it is expensive for your project. You got two library and these are doing same thing.
What you can do, what will you see?
I think you are using Swing with JDK 1.6. or 1.7 And you can use JavaFx 2.2 but DON'T FORGET if you use that JavaFx you have to install JavaFx Runtime to your computer. And not only you! You have to install Runtime to other users which are using your jnlp.
And if your structure based on JDK 1.8 there is no problem. Java 8 have JavaFx SDK.
And when you add JavaFx to Swing some components will not work or will work slowly.
What i suggest?
Use one library! Choose one and just it. Change your Swing Project to JavaFx project because it future of Java Desktop Application.
And if you don't want to change your project don't use JavaFx then. Use swing components.

how to make animation app in java using applet,awt and swing?

i want to make an app in java which will run on browsers like following links:
http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/geometric-optics/geometric-optics_en.html
http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/ray-diagrams.html
i am new in programming.
how can i start creating it in java?
Please give me any suggestions.

See How to Make Applets which has an example of a Swing Applet with animation.
i am new in programming.
It won't hurt to read the rest of the tutorial as well since it contains most everything you want to know about Swing.

Creating a simple gui in java for running a background process

Well, I had this question in mind for a long time.
Even though I have a complex requirement,i will keep it as simple as possible.
I have background process which takes two arguments which I use to execute from command line.
The first argumets can have three valid values and the secong argument can have two valid values.
I usually run that process on command line in solaris unix.and that process is completely coded in C++.
What I want now is I wish to create a simple gui in java for running the process in background.
I am complete new to the advanced concepts of java, and I am aware of some core java which I studied in my college days.
So,My question overe here how do I start creating a gui?
What all do I need to create a simple gui using java?
I am confident enough to learn gui programming in java as I am a c++ programmer.
Please give me some right directions to give some life to my thought and any some good materials available on the net would be helpful.

I would start by looking at;
Creating a GUI with Swing
Concurrency in Swing
Concurrency in Java
I'd also become familiar with ProcessBuilder (a simple example) and Basic IO
MarvinLabs also makes some great points as well

The Google search you'll want to use is "java swing tutorial". Swing is Java's GUI library.
You can also have a look at: Java GUI frameworks. What to choose? Swing, SWT, AWT, SwingX, JGoodies, JavaFX, Apache Pivot?

You really just need a JFrame and a JPanel. The JFrame is the physical window that the gui lives in, while the JPanel is the content manager. You place JComponents (e.g. JLabel, JComboBox) into the JPanel.
Java Api: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/
Examples of using each component: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/index.html

IMO, you may try using JavaFX 2.1 to develop your GUI in java. It has Scene builder tool to design your application, built-in support css-like skin.
Check the concurrency in Javafx 2.1 here.

Implementing a simple UI editor in Java

I'm thinking about writing a simple UI designer in Java. I'm just playing with ideas at the moment to see if it is feasible.
It would be good to have something like this as all of our UIs are generated from XML. Just wondering if anyone has tried anything like this before. I know there will be a lot of effort in doing something like this.
Does anyone know of any 3rd party products that already do something like this?
If not then at a simple level, it will have drag and drop support for any component that can be positioned on a panel. Then extra bits will be added. Are there any good samples on the net for this?
Cheers

Dated back to 2005, this has an overview of Java UI Builders:
http://www.fullspan.com/articles/java-gui-builders.html
Here is a page on how to use the Eclipse Visual Editor:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecvisual/
Here is a good page on the different approaches to build UIs in Java:
http://leepoint.net/notes-java/GUI/misc/80gui-generator.html

Which GUI technology are you using? Swing? NetBeans has a very good drag-and-drop Swing GUI editor. For Eclipse there are several plugins.
If you want to see other projects in which a Swing GUI is generated from XML config files, there are different libraries that do this.

Eclipse 4.0 Developer Preview was just released with an xml based toolkit called XWT. It can be styled with CSS and has a GUI builder. This is a developer preview and there will be some changes over the next year as it progresses to release 4.1, but it is useable right now and the community support is really good.

What Java GUI framework is good for a first GUI project?

The title description basically says it all. I'd like to use something that requires a relatively short learning curve since it is my first project and I'd like to spend at least some of it actually writing the code, not just learning how to do it, but also something that has good documentation in a way that some new bleeding edge framework probably wouldn't. Any ideas?

If what you want to do, is actually create a working program with a GUI, and you just want to do that I would recommend looking at the Swing GUI editor in NetBeans, as it is very easy to work with and powerful too.
There is an old demonstration floating around showing how to implement a preference panel like the one in Netscape Navigator (the predecessor to Firefox), but I cannot find it right now.
The Java tutorial trail is here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/learn/index.html
EDIT: It appears the preference panel demo has been taken offline. You may want to see this demo for NetBeans 6.0 instead: http://www.javalobby.org/eps/matisse-updates/

It's not clear if you mean a desktop or Web GUI.
For a desktop GUI, just use Java's Swing framework. Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing is a starting point for that. Sure it's old but then again so is Swing. You could also try The Java Swing tutorial.
For a Web GUI, start with servlets/JSPs. Try Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 1.0: A Tutorial.

Swing + MiGLayout ^^

I know you did say you wanted a simple and easy to learn GUI toolkit. #cletus has nailed that answer :)
But if need to look for alternatives and evaluate them before you decide how to write a GUI, check out this list of alternatives to Swing and AWT.

Swing + GroupLayout
I've been posting on these a couple of times.