Once again I spoke too soon and just had a painful moment. iReports that I'm using has jfreechart-1.0.3. The demo report I like uses jfreechart-1.0.12 Without thinking I replaced the jfreechart.jar jcommons.jar itest.jar in my eclipse reference libaries. This then broke the iReports I had in this project. Then changing back to the original jars to experience the pain of eclispe not rebuilding some file, I say this because I had to delete my project (and contents) and workspace then recreate it. Now I'm back where I started wishing I was able to create the bar graph I reference above. I'm pretty sure I have a lot to learn