On 03.09.2014 06:26, Holger Schmeisky wrote: > Hi guys, > > I researched a bit on IDEA's capabilities for something like the SWT > Browser and there is no such thing. Looking for Swing browsers: > > * JavaFX Webview [1], but it seems JavaFX is not fully supported in > IDEA [2] > * DJProject [3], but it is not developed since 2011 and probably > lacks functionality > * JxBrowser [4] can do everything we need and looks really good, but > is commercial. I asked them for an open source license and they do > provide free licenses to open source products, so that should be no > problem. Is there a problem with the Saros license when we embed a > closed-source 3rd party library?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins And now the "fun" begins ... reading that chapter it is even hard to decide if you can develop a simple Eclipse IDE Plugin using GPL as you are calling Eclipse Code which is not licensed under GPL. > > Regards, > Holger > > > [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/webview/jfxpub-webview.htm > [2] http://devnet.jetbrains.com/message/5507484#5507484 > [3] http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/ > [4] http://www.teamdev.com/jxbrowser > > Holger Schmeisky; holge...@fu-berlin.de > Takustraße 9, Room 008, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin > +49 176 64146306 > > Am 01.09.2014 13:22, schrieb Matthias Bohnstedt: >> Thank you very much for the clarification and the advice, this helps me >> a lot. And soory for writting german in the mailinglist, I just hit the >> “all reply” button and didn’t look twice. My bad. >> >> Greetings Matthias Bohnstedt >> >> >> >> 2014-09-01 10:09 GMT+02:00 Lutz Prechelt <prech...@inf.fu-berlin.de >> <mailto:prech...@inf.fu-berlin.de>>: >> >> Matthias, >> >> please observe that this is an English-language mailing list. >> Björn's German email was a mistake. >> >> You asked how you should go about understanding the browser-based >> GUI approach better. >> Here is a suggestion: >> >> - talk to Damla Durmaz, she is implementing a simple (without input) >> case on the Eclipse side right now >> >> - the browser base component already exists on the Eclipse side >> (written by Björn Kahlert) >> >> - have a closer look at how Björns component works (it builds on >> top of Eclipse's SWT browser component but adds a lot of >> usage simplification stuff) >> >> - look at IntelliJ: What does the most suitable IntelliJ (Swing) browser >> component look like? >> Here are a few starting points: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/48249/is-there-a-way-to-embed-a-browser-in-java >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1454652/embed-browser-in-java-based-desktop-application >> >> - How would one wrap it such that it becomes fully(!) compatible >> to Björns Eclipse component? >> If necessary, we will of course modify Björns component to make >> this easier. >> >> - When you understand this, come back and explain it to all of us, >> so we can make a decision together how to proceed. >> >> Second, you said it was your understanding that parts of the >> Saros-E GUI were implemented in this browser-based way. >> No, this is not the case. >> Björn has built a different application where this is true. >> But for Saros, we only now start to look into this implementation >> style -- so there is plenty of free space for you to act in. >> >> Lutz Prechelt >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Slashdot TV. >> Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. >> http://tv.slashdot.org/ >> _______________________________________________ >> DPP-Devel mailing list >> DPP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net <mailto:DPP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dpp-devel >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Slashdot TV. >> Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. >> http://tv.slashdot.org/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DPP-Devel mailing list >> DPP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dpp-devel >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Slashdot TV. > Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. > http://tv.slashdot.org/ > _______________________________________________ > DPP-Devel mailing list > DPP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dpp-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/ _______________________________________________ DPP-Devel mailing list DPP-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dpp-devel
