Rogue Wave JViews Charts is a comprehensive set of Java™ tools and libraries for creating business, scientific, and real-time charts. Charts can be used in various applications including high-performance real-time displays, deeply customized displays, static and dynamic Web displays, and many more.

At its core, JViews Charts is essentially a Software Development Kit (SDK), designed for use by Java user interface developers. It is delivered as a well documented and thoroughly tested collection of Java classes for building and controlling every aspect of a chart display. In addition to this SDK, JViews Charts is delivered with a point-and-click visual editing tool called Designer for JViews Charts. (This name is usually abbreviated to simply Designer, although note that there are similarly named tools for other JViews products).

Designer is the logical starting point for using the product, offering a user-friendly design environment for describing many of the visual and behavioral characteristics of your chart display. Yet whereas Designer can be used to preconfigure parts of the display, it is expected that you will need to complete your chart application by writing code using the SDKs. This is required because most applications where JViews Charts is employed require some specialized display or behavior characteristic that is only available via the SDK. Most application developers can find the functionality they need by using the Designer and the provided SDK. It should be noted, however, that the Java classes in the SDK are designed for extensibility. When necessary, you can extend these classes to create the precise user interface that your users require.