How do you open web pages in Java?

java web jframe
GA Tech Mike picture GA Tech Mike · Apr 14, 2009 · Viewed 63.8k times · Source

Is there a simple way to open a web page within a GUI's JPanel?

If not, how do you open a web page with the computer's default web browser?

I am hoping for something that I can do with under 20 lines of code, and at most would need to create one class. No reason for 20 though, just hoping for little code...

I am planning to open a guide to go with a game. The guide is online and has multiple pages, but the pages link to each other, so I am hoping I only have to call one URL with my code.

Answer

Joachim Sauer picture Joachim Sauer · Apr 14, 2009

Opening a web page with the default web browser is easy:

java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().browse(theURI);

Embedding a browser is not so easy. JEditorPane has some HTML ability (if I remember my limited Swing-knowledge correctly), but it's very limited and not suiteable for a general-purpose browser.

Related questions

The superclass "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet" was not found on the Java Build Path

I have a project created by Maven integration in Eclipse. All work fine, but in the work space in all JSP files have this: The superclass "javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet" was not found on the Java Build Path To the …

Read More
build-impl.xml:1031: The module has not been deployed

I have been working on a Java web application and i am using SmartGwt on Netbeans 7.3 and out of a sudden I encountered this problem. I tried cleaning the build-impl.xml then restarting the IDE and I should say I …

Read More
JWT (JSON Web Token) library for Java

I am working on a web application developed using Java and AngularJS and chose to implement token authentication and authorization. For the exercise purpose, I've come to the point where I send the credentials to the server, generate a random …

Read More