The wait has come to an end and it’s quite a relief to finally be able to write about (and promote) something I’ve been involved in my spare time, mainly in 2009 and partly in 2010 as well.
In December 2008 I had the pleasure to meet members of the management board of element5, one of the world’s largest outsourcing partners for the software industry, who were just kicking off a new little project: a charting library for JavaScript and Java. My colleague Oliver created the GWT Canvas project which was used for the rendering and I designed most of the project architecture and laid grounds for the available chart types. Unfortunately I had to reduce my involvement in late 2009 due to other personal projects and more responsibilities in my day job and made way for Joern and Andreas as the current main developers, but I’m still part of the development team and a little proud to see the first alpha come to light.

The first public release is an alpha version for testing purposes, so if you’re interested in a flexible, yet easy to use chart library for JavaScript/GWT, have a look at arcadiaCharts.com.