The Browser in Eclipse (instead of Firefox)

Submitted by danielb on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 14:34.

Hello,

I think it's not really a problem, that Firefox is not usable (because it's not Java). The Browser what is inside of Eclipse is very good. I think it's a part of the SWT-library from IBM. http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-browser-widget/browser.html

Yesterday I started the Apache Lenya CMS in Eclipse and it worked properly, even the Ajax & JavaScript-Stuff what the WYSIWYG-editor Bitflux is using works properly.

An alternative to SWT would be e.g. http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp

Cheers!
Daniel

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Eclipse implies SWT

Submitted by Stephen Crawley on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 15:56.

The Eclipse-based browser surely depends on SWT, and porting SWT to JNode would be a big job, I imagine.

The Lobo-Browser runs on Swing

Submitted by danielb on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 10:03.

all right, so there's the Lobo-Browser. It's based on Swing. I downloaded it and surfed with it a while. The HTML-rendering-engine of it needs some more help, but is already good. It can render Ajax-stuff and JavaFX.

NetBeans doesn't have a browser. So Lobo seems to be the best one for JNode.