Web Browser

Hello everyone,

 

I am evaluating the possibility of building an application on top of
NetBeans IDE. 

 

I need to create a window pane in the "explorer" or "properties" position
which includes a web browser, preferably one which will run flash
animations. As such, I have evaluated JDIC as it is used in the Feedreader
example created by Rich Unger. However, when Feedreader uses JDIC to open a
native browser such as IE, it doesn't use a TopComponent subclass. Rich's
in-line documentation seems to indicate it isn't possible because
TopComponent is Swing and JDIC is AWT based.

 

Is Rich's evaluation correct? No possibility of using JDIC in an embedded
panel in NetBeans?

 

Any other methods for getting a web browser in a panel, preferably a fully
functional browser which will run Flash?

 

Thanks,

 

Patrick Nee

[email protected]