Why JxBrowser
Clear API & Docs
- Easy-to-use API
- Quick Start Guides
- Extensive Knowledge Base
Prompt Support
With a single-point support portal we are focused on your smooth experience with our library.
Developers’ Choice
Selected by 863 commercial and 33 open source projects worldwide since 2007.
Proven Expertise
Created by a team with years of hands-on experience of integrating Java code.
371 companies worldwide build software using JxBrowser
Here are just a few to name:
Simple Integration
Java Swing App
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/.../
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import ...
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/**...*/
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public class JavaSwingSample {...
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public static void main(String[] args) {...
- Browser browser = new Browser();
- BrowserView view = new BrowserView(browser);
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- JFrame frame = new JFrame();
- frame.add(view, BorderLayout.CENTER);
- frame.setSize(700, 500);
- frame.setVisible(true);
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- browser.loadURL("http://www.google.com");
}
}
JavaFX App
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/.../
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import ...
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/**...*/
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public class JavaFXSample extends Application {...
- @Override
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public void start(final Stage primaryStage) {...
- Browser browser = new Browser();
- BrowserView view = new BrowserView(browser);
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- Scene scene = new Scene(new BorderPane(view), 700, 500);
- primaryStage.setScene(scene);
- primaryStage.show();
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- browser.loadURL("http://www.google.com");
}
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public static void main(String[] args) {...
}
}
How You Can Use JxBrowser
Cross-desktop Apps
that require web browser capabilities
Google Maps
in your Java Desktop Apps
Automated Tests
for web applications or services
Taking Screenshots
of web pages
Cross Desktop Apps
JxBrowser can be used to display modern web pages and HTML+CSS+JavaScript content in your Java applications. It allows building GUI of your cross-desktop application using any popular HTML5 UI toolkit.
Using Google Maps API
Using JxBrowser you can embed Google Maps into your Java Desktop Apps and communicate with loaded map using JavaScript Google Maps API to zoom in/out, display a specified location, change map type, etc.
Automated Testing
With full access to loaded web page’s DOM and JavaScript you can find DOM elements, extract useful information from document content, fill and submit web forms, execute custom JavaScript code, etc.
Taking Screenshots
You can take a screenshot of a web page including hidden scrollable area and save it as an image file. This functionality can be used in developing a web service that provides image of a web page by its URL or for automated tests when you need to compare screenshots of the same web page to find regression and changes.
Features
Lightweight and Heavyweight Component
JxBrowser supports two rendering modes: lightweight and heavyweight.
In lightweight (off-screen) rendering mode Chromium engine renders web page
off-screen using CPU.
In heavyweight (GPU-accelerated) mode the engine renders content into a native
window embedded into your Java application using GPU. Learn
more.
Flash Support
JxBrowser allows displaying Adobe Flash content. You will need to have PPAPI Flash
plugin installed.
Learn
more.
Browser Events
You can listen to different web browser events such as Load (StartLoadingFrame
, FinishLoadingFrame,
FailLoadingFrame
, DocumentLoadedInFrame
and DocumentLoadedInMainFrame),
Title and Zoom change events. Render process events such as RenderCreated
and RenderGone
are also available. See example.
DOM Access
You can find required HTML elements by tag name or ID, get/set HTML element attributes,
listen to different DOM events such as click, mousedown,
keydown, keyup, load, unload etc.
See example.
JavaScript Dialogs
JavaScript dialogs such as alert, confirmation, prompt, beforeunload, and file upload
dialog can be handled using DialogHandler.
You can choose whether a JavaScript dialog should be displayed or not and what the
dialog should look like. See example.
Proxy, Basic, Digest, and NTLM authentication
With NetworkDelegate
you can handle basic, digest, NTML, and Proxy authentications. Learn
more.
Zooming
You can zoom in, zoom out on a web page or set your own zoom level for the currently
loaded web page. Zoom level is configured for each domain separately. To make sure that
the zoom level for the web page is changed you can use ZoomListener.
You can choose whether a JavaScript dialog should be displayed or not and what the
dialog should look like. See example.
Accurate Web Display
The component displays images generated by Chromium engine. Because of this web pages will look exactly as in Google Chrome.
Cookies
Using the CookieStorage
object you can receive all the cookies including secure and HTTP-only ones, delete all
the cookies or a specific one, create and register new cookies. See example.
Bidirectional JavaScript-Java Bridge
You can execute JavaScript code on the loaded web page and return the result of the execution to the Java side. You can work with JavaScript objects directly from Java. You can inject Java objects into JavaScript and work with Java objects from JavaScript. See example.
Custom Context Menu
ContextMenuHandler
allows you to handle the situation when context menu should be displayed. You can build
your own Swing context menu, using different useful information from ContextMenuParams,
such as context menu location, selected text, link URL, link text, HTML element media
type etc. See example.
HTML to Image
JxBrowser allows getting image representation of the loaded web page including the hidden scrollable area. The image can be saved in PNG, JPEG and other graphic formats. See example.
Console Listener
Using ConsoleListener
you can listen to console message events including JavaScript errors. See example.
Load Handler
The LoadHandler
allows you to handle navigation to any URL address and cancel it when it's necessary.
See example.
Saving a Web Page
Browser.saveWebPage()
allows you to save the loaded web page as a set of files. See example.
Web Standards
JxBrowser supports all the modern web standards including HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. In general JxBrowser supports the same web standards as Google Chrome.
Proxy Settings
You can configure each Browser instance to use its own proxy settings. Various configurations are supported: auto detect proxy, manual proxy configuration for HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SOCKS protocols, direct proxy, proxy auto configuration files. See example.
Java Web Start and Java Applet
You can use JxBrowser library in Java applications that are deployed via Java Web Start or Java Applet. Read more in the Knowledge Base.
Pop-ups
All pop-up windows can be handled with PopupHandler.
It is you who decides whether a pop-up window should be displayed or not and how exactly
you want it to be displayed (e.g. in a separate window, in your application tab etc.).
See examples.
User-agent
With JxBrowser you can set your own user-agent for all Browser instances. See example.
File Download and Upload
DownloadHandler
allows you to handle file downloads and control whether a file should be downloaded or
not. You can also receive notifications about download progress, speed, completion
percentage, received bytes etc. See example.
When a user clicks the file upload INPUT element on a web page, the DialogHandler.onFileChooser()
method will be invoked. Using this method you can display your own file chooser dialog
where a user can select a file to upload.
Keyboard and Mouse Events Filter
You can filter all keyboard and mouse events before they are passed to the Chromium engine. See example.
Try the Demo
Run The Demo jxbrowserdemo.jnlp
Runs on Windows, Mac OS X & Linux with:
- JRE 1.6 or later;
- Java™ WebStart version 1.8 recommended.
You can find the same Demo application in the /demo directory of JxBrowser distribution
package and run it locally.
More
Details
Getting Help
Contact Support
During your evaluation and an active support subscription you can submit requests related to your project on our support portal.
Ask a Question
We answer questions with #jxbrowser tag on Stack Overflow.
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If you have questions, not covered by the documentation, email us at sales@teamdev.com.
Licensing and Pricing
Licence use is governed by the Product Licence Agreement.
Licensing policy has changed starting from JxBrowser 6.
JxBrowser is using Webkit subproject of Chromium, supplied under LGPL. Please reference download Readme file for LGPL compliance.
- Perpetual licence
- Free distribution within your application
- 1 year Support and updates
- Support renewal with 25% discount
- 15% discount on TeamDev products
Company-wide $14,599
- Unlimited developers
- Unlimited projects
- 500 hours of support for 1 year
Source Code For 1 Developer
is also available for purchase
Frequently Asked Questions
Technical Questions
JxBrowser runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. More information on supported platforms is available on the System Requirements page page on the product support site.
No, all the required Chromium binaries are deployed with JxBrowser library. You even don’t need to install Google Chrome to work with JxBrowser.
Actual JxBrowser version is based on Chromium 51.0.2704.106 build.
Yes, you can use JxBrowser in Java Applet and JWS applications like a standard Java library. You can find more information about it in JxBrowser Knowledge Base.
Take a look at the licence installation instruction.
You can find a lot of examples in JxBrowser distribution package and online in our Knowledge Base.
Licensing Questions
First of all there are no more runtime files. You will only receive one licence file to use for development and distribution of your applicatons including our library. Also, you are now eligible for all updates, both major and minor, during your active Standard Support subscription period. Please take a look at the Licence Changes page devoted to the licensing changes for more detailed information.
Major and minor version upgrades issued during your active Standard Support subscription period are free of charge. Upon expiration of the Standard Support subscription you can renew it with a 25% discount from the actual licence price.
Please take a look at the Product Licence Agreement.
You only need to purchase 2 licences. We licence our library by the number of people who write code using our library.
This is possible with the Per Developer licence.
You can distribute unlimited number of copies of your product with our library enclosed.
You may want to purchase a Project licence, which is cost-effective in case there are 3 and more developers on the team. The Project licence is bound to a single project you do, but it allows any number of developers in your company to work with our library.
Project Licence is bound to your project via the fully-qualified class name. The fully-qualified class name for a class is the package name followed by the class name, separated by a period (.). For example: com.mycompany.myproduct.MyClass
This can be any class of your application. The only requirement is that it should be included into your Java application class path.
When we say “project” we have in mind one product of your company including your future product versions or potential derivative works based on your product.
The Project licence is tied to one project only.
The best solution would be to purchase the Company–wide licence, which covers any number developers and projects in one company.
Upon the licence purchase you will receive a licence archive. The archive will contain a licence.jar file. This licence should be used in the development process and included in your application when distributing it to the end users. Inside the licence.jar you can find the teamdev.licenses file that contains information about your licence.
Yes, you can purchase JxBrowser Source Code Licence; it is provided on a per developer basis. Please contact our sales team if you are interested in this option.
If you are doing an open source or academic project, you can apply to get a free licence. Please submit a request via Open Source or Academic tab on the evaluation form.
Chromium code is mainly provided under a permissive BSD licence, however, some components it includes are supplied under different licences. We have reviewed the licences for all components included in JxBrowser and referenced them here. There are no requirements to disclose your proprietary code.
Evaluate
With this licence you will be able to evaluate our product
for 30 days.
The evaluation licence will not work after this time, so you will need to purchase the licence.