In the lab I work in, we use Mozilla 1.7 for Sun Java™ Desktop System and Firefox 2.0.0.4. My goal is to modify an existing Java application (run via executable jar) to communicate with our web-based login system.
I am open to the idea of using both Java Applets and JavaScript to accomplish this task, but I have not found a way to integrate these two technologies in any browser but Netscape Navigator and Internet explorer.
Is there a way to do this using either of the two aforementioned browsers?
A more concrete example:
1. Launch application
2. Click a "login" button
3. Be prompted for a password
4. In the background, have the application connect to the web-based login server, enter the username (known by the app) and the password, navigate to the time clock section and "click" the Punch In button
5. Pull the timestamp of the login (typically displayed on the browser) and display it in the app