Embedding an application inside another application

Question

I'm sure some of you noticed that if you have Acrobat Reader ( or any other pdf viewer ) , and open a pdf in Firefox , you will see it embedded inside your tab . Is there any way to embed an application in a JFrame ?

Answer 1

Yes, but that application will need to provide JComponent version which is embeddable.

Answer 2

This is a rather tricky. In general, native application such and Adobe Reader does not provide component which can be embedded into swing application. But in Windows there is COM/OLE approach which allows embedding of application together. This article can help you. It points on two project JCOM and JACOB which allows such embedding.