The browser package allows to display an HTML file from within an application or an applet. Basicly, you just give it a Container (Frame or Panel) to display the output to and then call a method to open a URL. The package has been developed for use in a help system. There is a special feature that is useful for help system implementation. The text between <MENU> and </MENU> tags is treated in a special way: it is displayed in a separate windows on top of the browser Container. This can be used for showing contents of a file for example. The feature can be turned off. For more info take a look at the documentation.
The classes for the package will be freely available soon. Full source release will follow shortly after (some bugs need to be fixed). Meanwhile you can try out the demos.
JavaBrowser Applet - View JavaBrowser in action without leaving your browser.
JavaBrowser Application - Part of the full classes realease.
Classes - browser package + demo sources + docs
Full source - full source and docs for everything
The JavaBrowser package has been developed by Alexey Goloshubin <s667@ii.uib.no> and Jeremy Cook <jeremy@ii.uib.no>