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Shanon
Shanon

Reputation: 161

Run a Java application in a web browser

I am relatively new to Java and have a Java application consisting of a couple of packages and a number of classes. I want to be able to run this application in a web browser. How do I go about doing this?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 59616

Answers (5)

neoexpert
neoexpert

Reputation: 474

I've written some kind of JVM which precompiles Java classes to native JavaScript. Here is an HelloWorld example which runs java programm in the browser:

https://github.com/neo-expert/jsjvm_helloworld

it has also a WebGL demo which renders a 3D cube.

Upvotes: 2

crowne
crowne

Reputation: 8534

If you want a really fancy web-browser based application written in java, then you should learn gwt.

Upvotes: 0

richj
richj

Reputation: 7529

Java Web Start is a good technology for deploying Java applications over the web. You can start the application from a web page link, although the application runs outside of the web browser frame: Java Web Start Tutorial.

Java applets allow you to embed a Java application in a web page. It has some serious drawbacks for larger applications.

Servlets (and Java Server Pages) are appropriate technologies for server-side generation of web pages (and other web content) but these technologies won't help you to deploy an existing Swing-based Java application, unless you are prepared to replace the user interface.

Upvotes: 12

Monachus
Monachus

Reputation: 314

The easiest way for you will be to use a servlet. What you need:

  • Apache Tomcat (Or any other Servlet container)
  • Knowledge of what a servlet is (basically a class that extends from servlet, like httpservlet)

Upvotes: 1

skaffman
skaffman

Reputation: 403441

See the section of the Java Tutorial on how to build and deploy applets.

Upvotes: 2

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