Google Finance style control for Java?
charts, java, swing, user-interface
Solution
You can try JIDE Charts as a starting point. I have used JIDE Charts and really like the package. It's very modular and easy to use. We actually created and maintain a charting package which implements features like you describe. We created a custom solution, which was very appropriate for our application. I only discovered JIDE Charts recently, but my first impression was actually that we probably could have built almost our whole package using that library as a foundation.
Another option would be JFreeChart. I have not used JFreeChart personally, but another person on my team at work is using it and getting decent results.
Problem
I'd like to make a timeline where you can view an overview and zoom in on certain portions of the timeline for more detail. Basically, I want what Google Finance has. Is there anything out there that can provide exactly that, or at least get me close? I'm using Swing and SwingX for my GUI components.