Launch native app inside a JFrame???

[benedums]

I know it's possible to launch an application from java but is it possible to launch an application and have it open as a JInternalFrame or similar inside a JFrame?

Here is the code for executing a command line arg.

public static void execute(String filePath){

try{

(Runtime.getRuntime()).exec(filePath);

} catch (IOException e) ;

}

Could you cast the runtime as a process and add that to an internal frame or jpanel? Not sure how that would work though...:confused:

Anyone have an idea how to do this?
Or if this is even possible?

[levent]

I think this is impossible..

[telepresence]

Was going to start a new thread, but then found this one. This is exactly what I am trying to figure out how to do. I haven't used Java and was trying to brush up and learn a little more. I'd like to construct a cross-platform desktop environment I could put on a thumbdrive and run on any system with java installed. I thought, though, that it would be good if I still had access to the programs on the system, but I'd want them to run along side of the ones in my desktop environment layer. Did you ever figure out how to open native applications inside of a JFrame?

[NRitH]

You probably can display the native app in a Java app, but I'll bet it's more trouble than it's worth. First, you don't want to have your Java app launch the native process; instead, you should use JNI to write a wrapper around your native code so that it can be controlled from within your Java code. Second, you'll have to muck around with java.awt.Toolkit and the java.awt.peer.* classes to create a peer that's hooked up to the native view.

[telepresence]

Maybe this will be a little easier then: how can I do the same thing, but with a 3rd party .jar or .class file? Meaning how can I open a java program with a gui inside of another java program's JFrame or JDesktopPane?

[NRitH]

Maybe this will be a little easier then: how can I do the same thing, but with a 3rd party .jar or .class file? Meaning how can I open a java program with a gui inside of another java program's JFrame or JDesktopPane?

That's easy. Include the third-party jar or class on your app's classpath, then instantiate the third-party app inside your program, and add its top-level GUI component to your own.

[telepresence]

Thanks! I'll see about getting it to work.