On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>           Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A custom XULRunner app is probably a bit heavyweight for what we want. I
> > would suggest that the YWMS team look into creating a lightweight
> > Firefox extension which uses some form of IPC to exchange data with the
> > running JOSM.
>
> So what we need is a firefox expert...
>
> I guess the alternative is a java native interface that invokes Gecko
> directly or something?
>

I already tested that way, but heavyweight components (XULRunner) don't
combine well with Swing components (JOSM). I have a very basic prototype
using a swing browser component (the Cobra library) inside JOSM displaying
an openlayers frame, but didn't have time to continue it. If anyone is
interested to continue it, I can give the sources or commit it to SVN.

Quico
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