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WebRenderer Swing Edition Released

The rendering quality of Mozilla is paired with the lightweight drawing of Swing including support for Java Look and Feels
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May 10, 2007 11:45 AM EDT
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JadeLiquid Software has released the WebRenderer Swing Edition. The WebRenderer Swing Edition is a Java browser SDK built upon Mozilla technologies (the same components as utilized by Firefox 1.5) and rendering in 100% pure Java Swing.

Through the WebRenderer Swing Edition, the rendering quality of Mozilla is paired with the lightweight drawing of Swing including support for Java Look and Feels (L&F), Swing dialogs and all Swing components. The WebRenderer Swing Edition architecture provides seamless integration into Swing applications with the Web content rendering and standards compliance of Mozilla. No longer is there a great divide between Swing and real world commercial strength Web Content rendering.

WebRenderer continues to offer Java developers a standards compliant and robust Java browser component technology. The Swing Edition is the accumulation of years of development effort working with key clients to drive the development of Java browser SDK’s to an entirely new level. Never before has there been a lightweight pure Swing Java browser SDK offering the standards compliance and rendering faithfulness of Mozilla.

The WebRenderer Swing Edition provides a framework to allow enterprise mash-ups utilizing Swing, AJAX and complex web content all within a Swing Desktop application.

The WebRenderer Swing Edition is a Java browser SDK based upon the native parsing and layout of the Mozilla engine. What this means is that Web content is laid out in a standards-compliant manner delivering faithful rendering of all web content.


A trial version of WebRenderer Swing Edition is available at www.webrenderer.com.

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Nick Baxter 07/30/07 05:04:35 PM EDT

That [visit link] in my previous post results in an error. After clicking the link, remove the dot at the end in the address bar and load the page.
Nick baxter 07/30/07 05:00:53 PM EDT

Hi Jay, You might be interested in http://teamdev.com/jexplorer. Jexplorer seems to render pages faster. Going by the features listed on their site, it appears to be comparable to WebRenderer. I don't know what WebRenderer quoted you (probably several thousands by your hints) but jexplorer personal edition is $149.
Jai Chand 07/30/07 04:09:30 PM EDT

As good as the WebRenderer component is, it's too expensive to justify its use for small businesses and independent developers. I'd say it's unreasonably priced given that it's a thin wrapper over freely available browser engines and the DOTNET framework includes a similar component for free. How expensive is it? I'm not allowed to say but let me give you some hints:

1) you won't see the price on their web site
2) you have to contact their sales rep to get the price
3) their short customer list includes Lockheed, IBM etc.
4) even with the above hints, you are likely to be shocked to find their price as I was when I learnt the price for a single user license.

Expect to see open-source replacements for this component in the near future.
Rick Addison 04/22/07 09:01:33 PM EDT

Looks like a much needed innovation for Swing developers !