Embed Swing App in .Net Application via a Window (form?)

[swebb99]

Hi,

Does anybody have any information on where I can find some details of
how I would go about embedding an existing Java swing application into
the window (form?) of a new .Net application on Windows.

I'd like to take a useful existing java app which I work on day to day
and allow users to view it in a new .Net app the company are working
on.

Is such a thing possible and if so how and what are the constraints
(risizing ?, mouse/keyboard events ? .....)

Thanks

Steve

[Peter Duniho]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:11:35 -0700, swebb99 <sw*****@gmail.comwrote:

Does anybody have any information on where I can find some details of
how I would go about embedding an existing Java swing application into
the window (form?) of a new .Net application on Windows.

I'd like to take a useful existing java app which I work on day to day
and allow users to view it in a new .Net app the company are working
on.

Do you need it to interact with your .NET application in any way other
than being presented within it? If not, and if you can make the
application an applet, then the easiest approach might be to do that and
then embed it in a basic HTML page displayed by the WebBrowser control.

Pete

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

swebb99 wrote:

Does anybody have any information on where I can find some details of
how I would go about embedding an existing Java swing application into
the window (form?) of a new .Net application on Windows.

I'd like to take a useful existing java app which I work on day to day
and allow users to view it in a new .Net app the company are working
on.

Is such a thing possible and if so how and what are the constraints
(risizing ?, mouse/keyboard events ? .....)

I am afraid that you will need to keep them as two separate apps.

It is possible to use Java code from .NET using the IKVM sofware,
but IKVM does not support Swing, so it will not work for you (it
does work fine for some other types of usage).

Arne

[swebb99]

Do you need it to interact with your .NET application in any way other *
than being presented within it? *If not, and if you can make the *
application an applet, then the easiest approach might be to do that and *
then embed it in a basic HTML page displayed by the WebBrowser control.

Pete

Still not decided if it should interact or not but the applet idea
seems like a possible way forward. There is an applet version of the
app that interacts with Javascript, does .Net have anyway of receiving
events from javascript ?

Thanks

Steve

[swebb99]

On 25 Jun, 00:27, Arne Vajhøj <[e-mail]:

swebb99 wrote:

Does anybody have any information on where I can find some details of
how I would go about embedding an existing Java swing application into
the window (form?) of a new .Net application on Windows.

I'd like to take a useful existing java app which I work on day to day
and allow users to view it in a new .Net app the company are working
on.

Is such a thing possible and if so how and what are the constraints
(risizing ?, mouse/keyboard events ? .....)

I am afraid that you will need to keep them as two separate apps.

It is possible to use Java code from .NET using the IKVM sofware,
but IKVM does not support Swing, so it will not work for you (it
does work fine for some other types of usage).

Arne

Thats a shame, I'll have a read about IKVM anyway as it might come in
useful at some point.

Thanks

Steve

[Peter Duniho]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:49:11 -0700, swebb99 <sw*****@gmail.comwrote:

Still not decided if it should interact or not but the applet idea
seems like a possible way forward. There is an applet version of the
app that interacts with Javascript, does .Net have anyway of receiving
events from javascript ?

Not that I know of. But I haven't used the WebBrowser control much. It's
possible you could find something in that control that allows the client
of the control to watch for things coming from Javascript.

I'm far from being an expert in this particular area, so I don't really
know much about what you can do. I _suspect_ that there's really no good
support for integrating Java or Javascript with a .NET application, but I
can't say that for sure.

Pete