The legend is enabled by setting its paint attribute to true.
import com.imsl.chart.*; import java.util.Random; public class HeatmapEx2 extends javax.swing.JApplet { public void init() { Chart chart = new Chart(this); JPanelChart panel = new JPanelChart(chart); getContentPane().add(panel, java.awt.BorderLayout.CENTER); setup(chart); } static private void setup(Chart chart) { AxisXY axis = new AxisXY(chart); int nx = 5; int ny = 10; double xmin = 0.0; double xmax = 10.0; double ymin = -3.0; double ymax = 2.0; double fmin = 0.0; double fmax = nx + ny - 1; double data[][] = new double[nx][ny]; Random random = new Random(123457L); for (int i = 0; i < nx; i++) { for (int j = 0; j < ny; j++) { data[i][j] = i + j + random.nextDouble(); } } Heatmap heatmap = new Heatmap(axis, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, fmin, fmax, data, Colormap.RED_TEMPERATURE); heatmap.getHeatmapLegend().setPaint(true); heatmap.getHeatmapLegend().setTitle("Heat"); heatmap.getHeatmapLegend().setTextFormat("0"); } public static void main(String argv[]) { JFrameChart frame = new JFrameChart(); HeatmapEx2.setup(frame.getChart()); frame.setVisible(true); } }