Pure Java HTML viewer / renderer

Question

I wonder what are the available pure embeddable Java HTML viewers? The requirements are:

1. Should implement JComponent interface to be placed into Scrollable pane.
2. Should be preferably a free solution; opensource is a plus.
3. Availability as maven artifact is a plus.

I know only few components:

• Build-in Java JEditorPane, supports HTML 3.2
• Cobra Toolkit, open source, supports HTML 4, Javascript and CSS 2
• MARTHA by RealObjects, commercial, supports HTML 4, CSS 2.1

Potentially embeddable products:

• Ekit by hexidec
• JSyndrome HTML Editor by Sferyx
• EditLive by Ephox

Any other components?

Answer 1

Check out this article: http://devdaily.com/blog/post/jfc-swing/how-create-simple-swing-html-viewer-browser-java

It uses JEditorPane and some other Swing classes to parse and render not only HTML, but also CSS.

Answer 2

A good reference is: http://java-source.net/open-source/html-parsers

Answer 3

You can also access the native browser through something like: http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/

For certain web pages, this is sometimes the only way to go. There are always trade offs.

I have yet to find a browser component that renders well, is open source, and sufficiently flexible at the same time. Cobra comes close but there are pages that it won't render and it's tough (impossible?) to do things like get rid of its own scroll bars, etc..