Websocket and Java Swing front end

Question

Is it doable to make Websocket interfaced with Java Swing front end? If so how?

Answer 1

Kaazing WebSocket Gateway ships with support for JavaScript, Flex, Silverlight, but also native Java clients (stand alone as well as applets). For more information, check out http://tech.kaazing.com/documentation/index.html

Answer 2

Try mine:

http://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket

Contains a Client and Server implementation. In the example folder there's a simple JFrame subclass called ChatClient. Look at it's source for a Swing reference.

Essentially you just need to subclass net.tootallnate.websocket.WebSocketClient and implement the onOpen, onClose, and onMessage methods. The class has an interface very similarly to the WebSockets API for HTML5.