Creating a Pie chart

The Pie chart component renders the category data as a Pie chart. The Pie chart uses the org.primefaces.model.chart.PieChartModel type instance as a backing bean model.

Let us see how we can create a Pie chart representing the percentage of posts being created with various tags:

<p:pieChart value="#{chartController.pieChartModel}"
  style="width: 350px; height: 250px;"
  showDataLabels="true" legendPosition="ne"/>

public class ChartController
{
  private PieChartModel pieChartModel;
  public ChartController()
  {
    pieChartModel = new PieChartModel();
    pieChartModel.set("JSF", 380);
    pieChartModel.set("PrimeFaces", 455);
    pieChartModel.set("jQuery", 202);
    pieChartModel.set("JPA", 180);
  }
  public PieChartModel getPieChartModel()
  {
    return pieChartModel;
  }
}

The preceding code renders a Pie chart as follows:

In addition to the title, legendPosition, seriesColors...