Web Browser Components for Java?

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 11, 2002 @03:51AM 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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Java Web Start by splante · 2002-01-11 07:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Java Web Start is a technology that combines the advantages of applets and applications. Web Start applications can be started via a browser, but do not run in the browser and can be run independently. It provides several services that allow the security of an applet with the power of an application.
One service (the BasicService) provides access to the user's default browser.
This is not exactly an "embedded browser" but it may be what you need.