Don't know if this is the right place to ask or not, but...

I want to build a graphical java front-end for some
computational C++ code I have. I need some pretty nice
graphics, but don't care to write such from scratch
yet again.

Are there any standard, high-quality graphics pure-java libraries that support:

x-y scatterplots, histograms, etc. with background
images and full programmer control over axes, tick marks, labels,
plot symbol style/color/size/etc and the same for lines.

How about the same for 3D?

I have found some candidates, but worried that as a newbie I
might waste a lot of resources going down a dead end.

Sage advice appreciated.

Thanks, ds