java bean web browser recommendations?

[stan k.]

Has anyone used any of these? I am looking to make a gui app where one
of the widgets will be a built in web browser...

I've noticed that Sun's HotJava is not opensource and also the source
code isn't available - so presumably I can't use it in my application
even if my app is free.

I saw another project at http://ajax.sourceforge.net/ which seems to
include a web browser widget but I'm not sure if it will work with an
html page that also contains javascript...

Anyone have any recommendations?

Thanks in advance,

Stanley Kagan

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

Has anyone used any of these? I am looking to make a gui app where one
of the widgets will be a built in web browser...

I've noticed that Sun's HotJava is not opensource and also the source
code isn't available - so presumably I can't use it in my application
even if my app is free.

AFAIK Sun doesn't sell HotJava any more. The remains of HotJava became
the JTextPane / JEditorPane and the HTMLEditorKit. All of these classes
are part of the Java 2 Standard Edition.

It takes some effort to use this classes and build a simple web
browser. You will also find that the features are rather limited.

You can also have a look at Java's help system JavaHelp if your task is
to display some HTML documentation. JavaHelp is build on top of the
above mentioned classes.

I saw another project at http://ajax.sourceforge.net/ which seems to
include a web browser widget but I'm not sure if it will work with an
html page that also contains javascript...

Java's build-in HTML support for sure doesn't. JavaHelp doesn't, too.

/Thomas

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[Fredrik Lindner]

There is always the Jazilla project
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jazilla/, although it is far from ready.

Another alternative is to use SWT from http://www.eclipse.org. The builds
of the next version contains a browser widget.

/Fredrik