Re: [platform-swt-dev] How XULRunner's deprecation affects SWT Browser

[Ned Twigg <ned.twigg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is an individual who is maintaining a Chromium / SWT integration here:

https://github.com/wjywbs/javacef

For a long time, SWT has been one of the best options for cross-platform desktop devlopment.  Today, a lot of people are choosing the "Electron" framework (http://electron.atom.io/#get-started), which is just an embedded chromium instance with API's for native hooks around stuff like the taskbar.

SWT could do everything Electron can do and more, if we had a good chromium embed.  The "use the system browser" approach is very hard to test against - it's very helpful to have only set of quirks to program against.

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Ned Twigg

Lead Software Architect, DiffPlug LLC

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340 S Lemon Ave #3433, Walnut, CA 91789

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Lakshmi P Shanmugam <lakshmipriya.bms@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

Since XULRunner is now deprecated and no longer maintained by MDN, SWT will not add support for newer versions of XULRunner or actively fix bugs in that area. But, the existing XULRunner support for SWT will continue to work as is and there is no plan to drop support for them.

The latest version of XULRunner supported by SWT is XULR 31. This support works on Windows and MacOSX but not on Linux. Please see: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=467646, any patches to fix this bug are welcome. The latest version of XULRunner supported on all platforms is XULR 24.

HTH,

Lakshmi Shanmugam

On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Kavith Lokuhewage <kaviththiranga@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Devs,

We were doing some work with SWTBrowser and XUL Runner to implement a web UI based editor for an Eclipse RCP based application. Since this product was targeted for cross platform users, we thought of embedding XULRunner with it to make sure this web based editor works smoothly in each OS and no additional steps needed from users to get it working properly. 

However, we can see that XULRunner is now deprecated and no longer maintained by MDN. How will this affect SWT Browser development? Is there an alternative for those apps which already use XUL Runner? Just wanted to get an idea about the impact for those who already use XULRunner and future of them - before going forward with the project. 

Thanks,
 

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Kavith Lokuhewage

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