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I was wondering about and hoping for a way to embed or control a web
browser from within a Java application. It doesn't have to be
cross-platform, but that is a bonus.

It also doesn't have to be Firefox, but that is a big bonus. My project
is basically going to monitor some of my favorite sites, and when they
change, download the latest version of them for offline viewing. It
would be nice if there could be a good integration with FF's rendering
engine.

Thanks,
Daniel.
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On May 4, 9:23*pm, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
> I was wondering about and hoping for a way to embed or control a web
> browser from within a Java application. It doesn't have to be
> cross-platform, but that is a bonus.

Check out the https://jdic.dev.java.net/ demo 'Browser'.
"This demo embeds a WebBrowser component to render the
HTML page specified in the URL text field. "
....
"Note: To run this demo, you must use Internet Explorer
or Mozilla (1.4 or a higher version) on Windows platforms;
use Mozilla (1.4 or a higher version) on Linux/Unix
platforms."

F-U set to c.l.j.g. only.

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Daniel Pitts wrote:

> I was wondering about and hoping for a way to embed or control a web
> browser from within a Java application. It doesn't have to be
> cross-platform, but that is a bonus.
>
> It also doesn't have to be Firefox, but that is a big bonus. My project
> is basically going to monitor some of my favorite sites, and when they
> change, download the latest version of them for offline viewing. It
> would be nice if there could be a good integration with FF's rendering
> engine.
>

Do you need to integrate the rendering? Could you use an external FF
application?

As I understand it (it's not something I've even looked into, never mind
actually tried) you can communicate with a running FF process via a socket.
Also, if you run FF and FF determines that another instance is already running
on that display then instead of starting a new instance it sends a message to
the running app. asking it to display the requested URL.

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"Daniel Pitts" <> wrote in message
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> I was wondering about and hoping for a way to embed or control a web
> browser from within a Java application. It doesn't have to be
> cross-platform, but that is a bonus.
>
> It also doesn't have to be Firefox, but that is a big bonus. My project
> is basically going to monitor some of my favorite sites, and when they
> change, download the latest version of them for offline viewing. It would
> be nice if there could be a good integration with FF's rendering engine.

Have you heard about JWebPane? It's a new Swing component that's due in
Java 7 I believe and is basically a Java front end to a WebKit browser pane.
I realise you cannot use it now but you may like to factor it in to your
longer term plans.

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Jarrick Chagma wrote:
> "Daniel Pitts" <> wrote in
> message news:vbPLl.2622$%_...
>> I was wondering about and hoping for a way to embed or control a web
>> browser from within a Java application. It doesn't have to be
>> cross-platform, but that is a bonus.
>>
>> It also doesn't have to be Firefox, but that is a big bonus. My
>> project is basically going to monitor some of my favorite sites, and
>> when they change, download the latest version of them for offline
>> viewing. It would be nice if there could be a good integration with
>> FF's rendering engine.
>
> Have you heard about JWebPane? It's a new Swing component that's due in
> Java 7 I believe and is basically a Java front end to a WebKit browser
> pane. I realise you cannot use it now but you may like to factor it in
> to your longer term plans.
>
That's an idea. I hadn't heard of it before. My application is mostly
for my own use, so I have no problem using not-yet-stable components for
now. I'll look into it.

Thanks,
Daniel.

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