Using the Column Chart within the Bean Development Kit
If you haven't already installed and configured the Bean Development Kit from Sun Microsystems then you should do so before proceeding. ( http://java.sun.com ).In order to use the Column Chart Bean in the BDK environment, simply place the columnchart.jar file in the BDK\jars directory and start the Bean Development Kit. You should see columnchart in the tools window as follows,
Then add an instance of the Columnchart to the Bean Box and you should see the following,
You will notice that there are no special properties in the Standard Properties window. The Column Chart Bean has a built in customizer which is accessed from the BeanBox Menu under Edit - Customize. This should bring up the following window,
From within this window you can edit the Column chart properties. Clicking the Apply button will apply any changes to the Columnchart instance in the Bean Box.
For further information on using the Bean Development Kit environment, please refer to the BDK documentation.