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Web Browser Components for Java?

Posted by Cliff on from the it's-all-about-the-components dept.

coonsta queries: "Being able to embed a Web browser is critical to the success of a platform (and the browser). High Stakes, No Prisoners argues this quite eloquently. Windows has an embeddable IE (and Mozilla to boot); Linux has Mozilla; wxWindows has wxHTML; etc. But what does Java have? I can forsake cross-platform support and embed IE, but that won't interact well with Swing; I can embed Mozilla, if Webclient is ever released in a usable form (and what about OS X?); I can use a JTextPane, and forget about nice-looking pages or script; I can Runtime.exec the browser and forget about being able to control it or interact with it; I can use CalPane and forget about JavaScript; or I can buy a component from Company X-dot-com, and subsequently price the software out of the market. Do any developers know if I can have my cake and eat it to? That is, does anybody know of a cheap, cross-platform Web browser component for Java with a reasonably modern feature set?"

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  1. here are some others... by flipper28 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Clue Browser
    HTMLArea Component

  2. Rhino by atomray · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is a Java JavaScript interpreter. Netscape began the project and it is still available:

    http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

    I have experimented with it, it works well. Enjoy

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