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When talking about combining Desktop and web applications today, you may possibly think of websites as rich internet apps such as Google Docs, which can be seamlessly integrated into your operating system as a browser app or extension. You probably don’t think of rich desktop applications with both a strong native desktop UI and a web based UI part. We didn’t think of that either until one of our customer searched for a possibility to integrate our Java based GIS product Cadenza into an already existing Java Swing application, mainly to profit on its mature map visualization capabilities. With its integration framework, Cadenza Desktop (a Java Swing app on its own) is already providing the possibility to be used as platform: It allows to integrate custom Java application code as a part of it, which is comparable to browser plugins extending the functionality of the browser. It also provides the possibility to utilize a map viewer component in a custom Java application while using Cadenza as library. Our challenge was the requirement of the customer to get a very lightweight Java application, which doesn’t need to load all libraries of Cadenza Desktop (which reflect about 1.4 million lines of code) into the memory of every client, while only using a small part of it (e.g. the map). Why not use our web pendant Cadenza Web instead and integrate its lightweight web appliction frontend into the customer’s Swing application? TL;DR: We did some research about frameworks which can be used to integrate a browser into Java Swing applications for rendering a web application, such as Cadenza Web, and to interact with it. What we were looking for. For the integration of websites in Java Swing applications, we need a browser of course. That browser, in form of a GUI component, must be integrable in existing applications. Such a component is realized as a direct or indirect implementation of java.awt.component and will cover a certain area of the application interface. Its purpose is to draw its frequently updating content — The rendered website — on that area to make it visible on the screen. This component is our basic requirement. To fulfill it we were looking for a tool (or more specific a framework) that provides us such component. A GUI component is just one part – there are more requirements to be fulfilled. Some of those will be introduced in the following. Interactivity. The component must allow the same interactions, which are required by the website that it renders. The map feature of Cadenza Web for instance integrates actions like panning, zooming and selecting objects on the map, as well as using GUI elements such as the toolbar or the interactive legend. Those actions introduce the need for the browser component to receive and forward input events like mouse clicks and keyboard keypresses to the website. From the viewpoint of the application, there may also be the need to satisfy OS relevant interactions, like downloading a file or utilizing the context menu. Apart from that, the use of special input features like the location API are of special interest for a geographic tool like Cadenza, too. Bidirectional communication. To control Cadenza Web as a rich web application we need a bidirectional communication between the hosting Java application and the web application. This communication will not only allow the transfer of control commands (e.g. for switching the URL or directly calling JavaScript functions) but also the transfer of knowledge about the current user interaction and the use case on a higher level: “I am looking at the city Karlsruhe on the map right now” . As an optimal and future proof medium we aim to use the Window.postMessage() feature here. Browser Feature Compatibility. The browser also must meet the website’s demand on browser feature compatibility to guarantee its functionality. Cadenza Web makes use of several new browser features like Web Components, color input elements and dialog elements. This requires the browser functionality to be up to date with current technologies and standards. Platform independence. The browser component as a mediator between the hosting Java application and the web application must support the intersection of platform support requirements of both sides. Apart of browser feature compatibility, Cadenza Web luckily does not introduce any platform dependencies. To be generically compatible with Java Swing host applications, we want a browser framework which supports as many platforms as possible. Qualitative Requirements. Beside the previously mentioned technical requirements there of course are also some qualitative ones. Those include the need of being sufficiently fast to allow a purposeful and convenient interaction with the website to provide a sufficient documentation or having a responsive support to maintain integration code, as well as the need for a living and future-proof development to keep up with technological advantages and to fix bugs. Also license requirements of the Java app and the web application must be met. The candidates. Of course this is not a new topic and some minor and major projects have formed around it. The result is a bulk of frameworks that aim to provide the searched feature of integrating a browser into Swing applications. The following are the candidates we took a closer look at. JavaFX WebView. The component we obviously had to take a look at is the JavaFX webview. JavaFX as the successor of Swing is part of Java (JRE and JDK) since Java 7. Although it gained a lot of criticism over time it provides us with a component called WebView which basically is what we need: A browser based on an old state of Webkit engine. Since JavaFX is practically a part of Java JDK it was our first answer to the question about how to solve the task. JxBrowser. JxBrowser, developed by TeamDev, is a standalone library which previously aimed to embed a set of existing browsers (IE, Safari, Mozilla i.a.) into Swing and JavaFX applications. Today it focuses on the integration of the code of the project Chromium browser which is an open source (BSD license) project Google Chrome based on, too. While this base is open source the JxBrowser itself is not. It costs a minimum of $ 1,799 per developer (different options are available). Java-CEF. Java-CEF (JCEF) is a Java wrapper for the C++ Project CEF. CEF itself is a BSD-licenced open source project founded in 2008 by Marshall Greenblatt. Like JxBrowser it is (mainly) based on the Google Chromium project and aims to facilitate embedded browser use cases in third-party applications. JCEF describes itself as project that is a “work in progress”. The DJ Project. The DJ Project is a set of tools to improve Java capabilities on the native desktop environment. The DJ Native Swing library as a sub-project provides Swing components, including a web browser component, that focuses on the integration of native desktop components into Swing applications. Other frameworks we sorted out. While we were focusing on an analysis of the usability of previously named frameworks we stumbled over several other projects with similar functionality that dropped out of our testing pool but might be worth to be mentioned: The framework SWT (a toolkit for the creation of Java GUIs) also integrates a browser component based on Webkit. Flying Saucer focuses on styling XML and XHTML with CSS 2.1 to render PDFs, images and swing components. JavaXPCOM was a project that aimed to allow Java code to interact with Mozilla XPCOM components. The XULRunner package thus provided possibilities to integrate Mozilla browser rendered content in Java. It is an obsolete feature since Gecko 4.0. MozSwing was another Java Swing browser based on the XULRunner and Mozilla XPCOM components. Lobobrowser is a web browser completely written in Java. Though its homepage seems to be unmaintained some activity can be seen on their GitHub project.