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Rewrite Gecko in Java ? Many applications require an HTML rendering engine . Unfortunetaly on the Java platform there is not a single rendering engine which support web standards in a decent way (although the situation is improving) . So why isn't there any project which aims to rewrite Gecko in Java ? There is one project called jazilla ( http://jazilla.mcbridematt.dhs.org/) but the project leader says that he can't be active on it anymore.Any suggestions ?
browserfan
If you really need Gecko, why don't you call it from your Java app using JNI?
muppet
I think there was one project way back when Netscape was the driving force. I forget its name though.
Matthew Lock
There was Grendel, but it's dead for long.
Ogami Itto
Have a look at jdic (https://jdic.dev.java.net/). It allows you to embeded the a "native" browser into your java application.
ITECS
"So why isn't there any project which aims to rewrite Gecko in Java"
AMS
Quite. If someone suggested I use a browser written in java on the desktop I'd tell 'em where to go. Pretty much all the java desktop apps ive used seem slow and seem to hang a lot, but maybe that's just me
Matt
Incidently, I read that ActiveState's Komodo IDE is based on the Gecko rendering engine.
Fred
One could write a good performance browser in Java these days. It would require good programming and it would probably take up much more memory than the equivalent browser written in C. I think the real issue is that there is no money to be made in doing so, and no one capable has started an open source project. Swing has components to display HTML and if you really need full browser functionality in your app, the JDIC project just makes more sense because your browser is more likely to be kept up to date than some component library. I think this question is kind of like asking why there isn't a Microsoft Word written in Java.
name withheld out of cowardice
First , Java applications are no longer slow . They used to be slow in the 90s but now some Java apps are faster than native applications . Just look at the benchmarks http://www.kano.net/javabench/ .Second , the reason I think Gecko can be rewritten in Java is that Netscape originally was developing their next generation rendering engine in Java but they changed their minds later and rewrote it in C++.So I think that rewriting Gecko in Java shouldn't be that difficult .
browserfan
"First , Java applications are no longer slow . They used to be slow in the 90s but now some Java apps are faster than native applications . Just look at the benchmarks http://www.kano.net/javabench/ "
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My personal idea is that desktop Java is no longer slow. I've used UML editors and mp3 players written in Java that were as responsive as their C/C++/Delphi counterparts. On the other hand the memory usage went through the roof.
Ogami Itto
Komodo's sluggish pace is due to python, not gecko.
fool for python
If you want to embed a browser in your Java app. Use SWT, it has a browser control
Gotta Love Eclipse
Java apps seem to use as much memory as you let them. Squeeze down the max memory allowed to the JVM and most apps still run fine. They get slower in my experience. I assume the JVM is stealing more CPU time to garbage collect.
Jonathan Briggs
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