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http://jdic.dev.java.net includes a cross platform native browser integration component. If stable, it would be a nice replacement for the swing browser. Don't worry about the LGPL license - the code is Sun owned, so it should be licensable under the SPL without difficulty.
Thanks for link, I'll look at it.
I've got the very first impl ready using the htmlbrowser apis - see extbrowser/jdiclib + extbrowser/jdic modules (binaries are not there yet, because of legal issues). But, jdic is still in some preliminary version - e.g. it's still version dependent (0.8.7 should remove the dependency and work with moz 1.4-1.7), so we should wait for the stable release. There are still some small issues with canvas and the htmlbrowser apis, as e.g. browser component seems to be on top of some popup menus, but it works quite well on first shot. One minor problem is that it needs to have the binaries on PATH - I'll have to handle this in jdiclib module, probably.
I played around with this in the feedreader tutorial, and had a lot more difficulty with the heavyweight component aspect. Moving a JDIC browser TopComponent from mode to mode would sometimes cause it to stop rendering. If this could be made to work, there's all kinds of other things we could do with a jdiclib module. Create a folder in the SysFS to represent menu items in the system tray, write a CookieAction that invokes the DataObject's primaryFile in the OS's associated appication.
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BTW, Rich's project is at https://jdic-netbeans.dev.java.net/