In Next few articles, I explore JASPER Reports a Java Library which has 2D,3D,Line,Pie,Bar chart.

One can easily display Graph/Chart based on sql Query ie Data fetched by SQL and same data

is used to Display in Chart/Graph format.

One has to import certain Java Library in your Java Program in order to run /Display chart.

Jasper Report is a component in JasperSoft Studio which is free ,just Download from internet 

and install on your computer.

Jasper Report generates two files one is Designed Report and other is Compiled Report.

Designed Report file is jrxml source file  with jrxml file extension and

Compiled Report file is Jasper Source file with Jasper file extension(.Jasper) 

it has GUI based editor and variety of reports templates such as 

1.) Form based

2.)Group (Break)

3.) Matrix  etc...

will show how to create Simple Jasper report in next Article...