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Is there a way to embed a browser in Java?
How can I embed a browser in a Java based desktop application? Can I communicate with the embedded browser directly (not via localhost)... such as loading html text, capturing onclick events, getting form values?
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check out Eclipse, it has an embedded browser which is configurable by the user (they support multiple browsers).
you can probably embed their browser even if you use an AWT based application using the AWT_SWT bridge.
this article may help you get started.
Swing JEditor pane is able to display HTML.
Check http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Swing-Tutorial/Swing-Tutorial-JEditorPane.html
Also here in SO is a more detailed answer to this topic:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48249/java-embedding-a-web-browser-pane
You can build a very primitive browser using JEditorPane. You can listen to Hyperlink events, but javascript or getting form values isn't possible.
Lobo is a Java web browser which can be embedded into Swing applications.
It supports HTML 4, CSS 2, and Javascript, which is more up-to-date compared to the JEditorPane
which only supports HTML 3.2.
For some ideas on what is possible, the Lobo Browser API documentation should provide an idea of what is possible to do with Lobo. In particular, the org.lobobrowser.gui
has a BrowserPanel
class which is a subclass of JPanel
, so it can be directly embedded in Swing applications.
For example, the BrowserPanel.navigate
method can be used to jump to web pages, and there are many Listener
s which can capture events which occur in the browser.
You could also try the JWebBrowser from DJ Native Swing: http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns
You could try JxBrowser library: http://www.teamdev.com/jxbrowser/features/
For example to embed Mozilla browser into your Java Swing application you just need to do the following code:
Browser browser = BrowserFactory.createBrowser(BrowserType.Mozilla);
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
frame.add(browser.getComponent(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setSize(700, 500);
frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
frame.setVisible(true);
browser.navigate("http://www.google.com");