GWT Highcharts Tutorial

HighChart Java Module is a open source java based library to provides an elegant and feature rich Highcharts visualizations within a GWT application and can be used along with GWT widget libraries. There are chapters discussing all the basic components of Highcharts with suitable examples within a GWT application.

Highcharts is a pure JavaScript based charting library meant to enhance web applications by adding interactive charting capability. Highcharts provides a wide variety of charts. For example, line charts, spline charts, area charts, bar charts, pie charts and so on. This tutorial will teach you the basics of Highcharts.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google AdWords and Orkut. GWT is an open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world. It is licensed under the Apache License version 2.0.

Audience

This tutorial is designed for Software Professionals who are willing to integrate Highcharts in a GWT based application in simple and easy steps. This tutorial will give you an understanding of the Highcharts and GWT concepts and after completing this tutorial you will be at an intermediate level of expertise from where you can take yourself to a higher level of expertise.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of Java programming language, text editor, and execution of programs, etc. Because we are going to develop web-based applications using GWT, it will be good if you have an understanding of other web technologies such as HTML, CSS, and AJAX.