Simple execution sequence for real time systems drawn in Java

Question

I need to draw some execution sequences for some real time systems scheduled using rate monotonic algorithm. The drawing has to be done using Java and it has to be very basic. Do you a very simple way to do this drawing? Simpler than Graphics2D?

Thanks a lot!

The diagram I want to be as simple or even simpler as this one:

Answer 1

I would suggest you to try with Processing, which is able to do such things with Java in zero time.. home page here.

You can easily embed a Processing frame inside your app, but remember that they are based on AWT so they are heavy weight and don't like being overlayed (for example in a JInternalFrame)

By the way what you seem to want to draw is a Gantt chart right?

You can try with JFreeChart too (see demo here), it's quite customizable and works fine.. homepage here