Web Browser in a Java Application

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How can I open a webpage from a java application and enter username and password into it? I have seen questions here where people have referred to lobo or DJ Native Swing.

But as I am very new to java these libraries seem quite complex to me and I can not find a good tutorial in it, please refer to some good library with a solid tutorial which can be a beginning ground for me.

Note: I am developing a Java Swing application and show the user a page opening and user name and password being submitted.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/748895/how-do-you-open-web-pages-in-java I think it is duplicate — hungneox, Dec 02 '11 at 15:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:07

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Take a look at Apache's HttpComponents project

answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:07

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:12

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What application do you develop? Web? Desktop/swing? Console? Mobile?

answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:12

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I am developing a swing application . – S. A. Malik Dec 02 '11 at 15:28
Do you want to open this page inside your app or new browser window? – user996142 Dec 02 '11 at 15:43
Inside my app ..is best for me.As i have to put some data from the application to a webpage after login, it is like submitting another form after login.. – S. A. Malik Dec 02 '11 at 15:50
Use SWTBroweser or mozswing. You can access page dom model and modify it in both cases AFAIK – user996142 Dec 02 '11 at 16:00
Mozswing seems good to me, but is their a tutorial for it. I have google but could not find a simple tutorial.. – S. A. Malik Dec 02 '11 at 16:06

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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It is not clear what you want to do.

1) Do you want to show it to the user? join to WebKit browser in Java app on multiple platforms

2) You want to fetch some data from a web page that requires login? then you should join to HttpClient login, search and get the XML content

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answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:14

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I want to show it to user. i.e he should see a page opening, login information being filled in the form and login button pressed. – S. A. Malik Dec 02 '11 at 15:29

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:34

Your question is not clear, are you trying to write a java application that will open a browser and enter data automatically?

If this is what you want then you can use selenium, a plugin for Mozilla. You can record your mouse movements, all your actions will get recorded as a jUnit test case.

You can then modify this junit test and read in the usernanme and password programatically from a file (or what ever you are trying to do.). This test can be run as a stand alone java application.

What is not clear in the question ? I can not use selenium as i have to perform other functions also, so an independent application is a complete no no ! — S. A. Malik, Dec 02 '11 at 15:46

Web Browser in a Java Application

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