What's new in WebCharts3D V5.3 - The new version introduces new 3D charting engine utilizing orthogonal and perspective projections and gradient-based surface charts. In addition, V5.3 provides Ajax-based popup descriptions that greatly reduce the page footprint, new heatmap and gradient color schemes, and wind rose chart. The Enhanced Eclipse plugin included with the product now fully replicates stand-alone Designer functionality and provides custom dialogs for the compound attributes. The new release supports both Expert and Standard editing modes.

WebCharts3D is available in Professional and Enterprise Editions. WebCharts3D Professional Edition does not support annotations and interactivity and can be used only to produce PNG/JPEG images or as a part of a rich client.

A 100% Java J2EE compliant state of the art visualization package, WebCharts3D was designed for the professional software developers who work with JSP, JSF, SWT and/or Swing interfaces. It provides general purpose and specialized 2D and 3D charts, gauges, and maps of the world, regions and leading industrial countries, and incorporates the innovative technology that allows it to deliver charts as applets or animated interactive server-generated images to the web browsers and mobile devices in multiple formats (Flash, SVG, PDF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WBMP, GIF, VML, Canvas) as well as to include charts as a part of Swing or SWT based applications. Rich set of API functions and transparent XML based formats allow WebCharts3D to be easily embedded into any application.

WebCharts3D software includes the following components:

WebCharts3D Chart Designer - A WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Chart Designer that will help you to define chart styles, view styles XSD Schema and DTD, generate XML and/or Java code, bind charts to datasources, view recommended JSP or custom tags code, deploy code to the server, and export and preview charts in a variety of formats. A Swing-based Designer component, a simplified version of Chart Designer, can be incorporated into your applications to provide your users with chart editing capabilities in WYSIWYG mode.

WebCharts3D Client-side components - Client-side components include standard Swing and SWT components that can be used within the corresponding framework to embed charts into rich client applications.

WebCharts3D Server-side components - Server-side components include JSP and JSF components that can be used with any J2EE application server to embed server-generated interactive charts into web applications.

Visual attributes: The following is a partial list of the chart's visual attributes.

WebCharts3D Chart types:

• 2D and 3D combinational line, bar, pyramid, cut pyramid, step, stair, area, curve, scatter, prism, column, floating bars, band, floating column, hi-lo-close, hi-lo-open-close, box-whisker, bubble and ring frame charts
• 2D and 3D pie, doughnut and raised doughnut charts
• Radar and star charts
• Gauge charts
• Gantt charts
• Histogram, timeline, regression and other statistical charts
• Tables and heatmaps
• Maps of the world, Europe, South and North Americas, Asia, Oceania, US, Canada, Mexico, Italy, France, Germany, UK, Japan, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, US States and more

WebCharts3D Frames

• 2D and 3D rotatable frames
• Optional grid lines and zebra stripes
• Customizable axis placement
• Optional frame plain, gradient or image background
• Multiple axes
• Multiple views
• Multiple customizable frame decorations
• Customizable colors

WebCharts3D Axes

• Category, scale, logarithmic and date/time scales
• Automatic or manual label count detection
• Automatic or manual range detection
• Vertical, horizontal, slanted or parallel label orientation
• Multiline and multilevel labels
• Optional customizable axis's title
• Flexible label formats, including predefined localized and pattern-based formats
• Enhanced logarithmic scale support
• Enhanced date/time scale support
• Multiple custom levels
• Multiple custom absolute or percentage based error bars

WebCharts3D Elements

• Stacked, Default, Clustered, and Percent element placement
• Multiple elements types
• Combination charts
• Customizable series and element's attributes
• Element outline and shading effects
• Solid, stroked, dashed, dotted and dash-dotted lines, curves and steps
• Optional customizable markers
• Element's morphing and animation attributes

WebCharts3D Legends

• Customizable fonts and colors
• Flexible placement and alignment
• Optional decoration
• Enhanced element placement
• Order reversal

WebCharts3D Data labels

• Optional data labels
• Flexible placement
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Optional decoration
• Custom parameterized text

WebCharts3D Data table

• Optional placeable data table
• Optional table inner and outer decoration
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Optional column and row labels
• Customizable vertical and horizontal alignment

WebCharts3D Popup and actions

• OnMouseOver, onMouseDown and disabled popups
• Parameterized annotations
• Parameterized onClick event handlers
• Customizable fonts and colors
• Optional popup decoration

WebCharts3D Miscellaneous

• Optional placeable customizable title
• 2D and 3D borders
• Chart's insets

API and formats

WebCharts3D Chart styles

• Flexible Java API
• Automatic Java code generation
• XML representation
• Automatic XML generation
• XSD Schema and DTD
• Built-in or external XML parser

WebCharts3D Chart's data

• Linked to databases, files, XML or object model
• Flexible Java API
• XML representation for both standard and crosstab formats

Development

WebCharts3D Client side:

• Chart component for use with applets and Swing applications
• Designer component for user with applets and Swing applications
• API for using Swing components
• Support for printing and exporting images in multiple formats

WebCharts3D Server side:

• Server-side interactive image generation components for JSP and JSF
• Output PNG, JPEG, PDF, animated Flash, animated SVG, TIFF and other formats
• Support for direct and indirect image delivery
• API for saving and delivering images

WebCharts3D is available in Professional and Enterprise Editions. WebCharts3D Professional Edition does not support annotations and interactivity and can be used only to produce PNG/JPEG images or as a part of a rich client.