Re: HTML-Rendering engine written in Java?

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi!

> 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.
>  
Thanks a lot, it seems that this is exactly what I was searching for.
Althought I dont have many time now,because of some commercial stuff 
that needs to be done until december...
But this seems the best thing available.

Thanks a lot, Clemens

PS: Greetings from J.Mehlitz,i talked with him by phone.