Re: HTML-Rendering engine written in Java?

[Jim Pick]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:55:46 +0200
Clemens Eisserer <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> Does anybody know a useable html-rendering engine completly written 
> using Java and 100% free Software (e.g. GPL, LGPL)...
> I want to port such a library from AWT/SWING to SWT.
> 
> All libraries I found were proprietary, so they arent useful at all for 
> me :-(

At Transvirtual, before it folded, we wrote a full web browser in Java,
and released it under the GPL as part of the "XOE" framework:

  http://www.kaffe.org/ftp/pub/packages/pocketlinux/

It requires some work though - it's got dependencies on the rest of the
PocketLinux framework, and Transvirtual's version of Kaffe (also in
the XOE release).

Subsequent to the XOE 1.0 release, Transvirtual ported it to run on any
JVM, but they never released that code (Transvirtual is no longer in
business).

It did a pretty spiffy job of rendering a lot of difficult web pages,
and it was reasonably fast too.

I'd love to see somebody take this orphaned code and clean it up and
make it into a standalone project.  A lot of the DOM, layout/rendering
and parsing code is probably worth preserving, as it took a lot of work
to get that to do a reasonably decent job.

Cheers,

 - Jim