NetFactory Inc. announced Wednesday the arrival of the ChartBlaster™ the newest tool for graphics design & development.

The ChartBlaster offers web designers, end-users, HTML authors and Java™ programmers the fastest way yet to design high quality graphics for business and engineering applications.

By combining the ChartBlaster with NetFactory's NetCharts 2.0 graphics engine, users can create, edit, save and deploy high quality, Java-powered charts and graphs to the Web or to other applications without requiring any HTML or Java skills.

ChartBlaster and NetCharts are available for any Java enabled platform including PCs, Unix and network computers like Sun Microsystems JavaStation. NetFactory is focused solely on delivering the finest graphics software on or off the Web.

"The ChartBlaster brings the ability to design and edit charts quickly and easily to the non-Java savvy. It demonstrates that NetFactory continues to provide the most robust suite of charting tools in the market. With the addition of the ChartBlaster, NetFactory's products offer the technical Java programmer and the non-technical end-user a tool to create and manage business graphics in a exciting new way," said Matt Young, NetFactory president.

ChartBlaster gives customers an easy and timesaving point and click interface allowing users to pick all of the attributes of the chart including chart type, fonts, colors, labels and data source. Unlike other charting tools, the ChartBlaster allows users to set placeholders for the data, which is dynamically resolved at runtime. This method creates an ideal environment for automatically updating web pages.

Charts created with the ChartBlaster may be used in Java programs or saved as GIF images for printing. The ChartBlaster offer customers a high-powered collection of business and engineering charts. Graphics for Internet, Intranet, and Extranet applications are used within HTML documents or standalone Java applications.

NetCharts 2.0 and the ChartBlaster allows users to import data from delimited flat files, RDBMS - through JDBC, CGI scripts, TCP/IP ports, JavaScript and others. This feature gives HTML authors and Java programmers the power to create charts from existing data files without additional coding.

This feature also makes graphical applications more intuitive and easy to use, while allowing developers to fully integrate graphical and textual hyper-links.

NetFactory Inc. is aleading supplier of Java-based graphical component Business Charting software. The company offers its NetCharts & ChartBlaster products along with related consulting, education and support services to users worldwide.

For additional information about NetFactory Inc. please contact NetFactory's worldwide headquarters at 301/625-5600 or by email to info@netcharts.com.