What is ScatterChart example in the Apache POI package? How to run ScatterChart example?

ScatterChart example in the Apache POI package is created by Roman Kashitsyn. It illustrates how to create a simple scatter chart in *.xlsx format.

ScatterChart example uses the XSSF (OpenXML SpreadSheet Format) API, which supports Excel files in *.xlsx format only.

Here is the command to run ScatterChart to generate a sample *.xlsx file.

C:\fyicenter>c:\local\jdk-1.8.0\bin\java 
   -cp .;C:\local\poi-3.15\poi-examples-3.15.jar;
         C:\local\poi-3.15\poi-3.15.jar;
         C:\local\poi-3.15\poi-ooxml-3.15.jar;
         C:\local\poi-3.15\ooxml-lib\xmlbeans-2.6.0.jar;
         C:\local\poi-3.15\lib\commons-collections4-4.1.jar;
         C:\local\poi-3.15\poi-ooxml-schemas-3.15.jar 
   org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.examples.ScatterChart   

If you open the output file, ooxml-scatter-chart.xlsx, in Excel, you will see a nice chart graph:

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