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Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla
Book Image

Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla

Overview of this book

For more than three decades, Java has been on the forefront of developing robust software that has helped versatile businesses meet their requirements. Being one of the most widely used programming languages in history, it’s imperative for Java developers to discover effective ways of using it in order to take full advantage of the power of the latest Java features. Java 11 Cookbook offers a range of software development solutions with simple and straightforward Java 11 code examples to help you build a modern software system. Starting with the installation of Java, each recipe addresses various problem by explaining the solution and offering insights into how it works. You’ll explore the new features added to Java 11 that will make your application modular, secure, and fast. The book contains recipes on functional programming, GUI programming, concurrent programming, and database programming in Java. You’ll also be taken through the new features introduced in JDK 18.3 and 18.9. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills required to write robust, scalable, and optimal Java code effectively.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Creating a bar chart

Data, when represented in the form of tables, is very hard to understand, but when data is represented graphically by using charts, it is comfortable for the eyes and easy to understand. We have seen a lot of charting libraries for web applications. However, the same support was lacking on the desktop application front. Swing didn't have native support for creating charts, and we had to rely on third-party applications such as JFreeChart (http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/). With JavaFX, though, we have native support for creating charts, and we are going to show you how to represent the data in the form of charts using the JavaFX chart components.

JavaFX supports the following chart types:

  • Bar chart
  • Line chart
  • Pie chart
  • Scatter chart
  • Area chart
  • Bubble chart

In the next few recipes, we will cover the construction of each chart type. The segregation...