RCP with SWT.Browser and XULRunner

Question

I\'m developing an RCP application (Windows) with SWT.Browser (SWT.MOZILLA):

Browser browser = new Browser(parent, SWT.MOZILLA);

I

Answer 1

As of Eclipse 3.8 / 4.2 M6 the org.eclipse.swt.browser now supports embedding XULRunner 10.0.x, but you must ship a XULRunner 10 runtime and explicitly point at it as described in the FAQ:

...    
    System.setProperty("org.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath", "path\to\xulrunner_10"); 
...

The XULRunner 10 runtime can be downloaded from ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/10.0/runtimes/

JavaXPCOM

Mozilla is not maintaining JavaXPCOM anymore, but as Grant Gayed says:

The Browser does not require JavaXPCOM in order for it to work, it just exposes it to apps that want to use it themselves through its getWebBrowser() method.

Linux

XULRunner 10 will currently not run under Linux because of Mozilla bug 720682.

Answer 2

I am running on windows7(64 bit) and have new xulrunner vresion:31.0.0 ([http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Download][1])

But when i try to give a path it given me error System.setProperty("org.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath", "path\to\xulrunner_31\");

java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.MessagingInterface.processCommandResult(MessagingInterface.java:342)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.MessagingInterface.syncSend(MessagingInterface.java:329)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeInterface.syncSend_(SWTNativeInterface.java:392)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.NativeInterface.syncSend(NativeInterface.java:104)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.Message.syncSend(Message.java:64)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.CommandMessage.syncExec(CommandMessage.java:55)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeComponent.runSync(SWTNativeComponent.java:201)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeComponent.createNativePeer(SWTNativeComponent.java:1009)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeComponent.access$17(SWTNativeComponent.java:989)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeComponent$12.run(SWTNativeComponent.java:882)
    at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:312)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:738)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$300(EventQueue.java:103)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:699)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:697)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:708)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeComponent$CMN_createControl.run(SWTNativeComponent.java:663)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.CommandMessage.runCommand(CommandMessage.java:61)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.NativeInterface.runMessageCommand(NativeInterface.java:172)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeInterface.runMessageCommand(SWTNativeInterface.java:1429)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.MessagingInterface.runMessage(MessagingInterface.java:121)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.MessagingInterface.processReceivedMessages(MessagingInterface.java:106)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.MessagingInterface.access$2(MessagingInterface.java:94)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.MessagingInterface$2$2.run(MessagingInterface.java:442)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeInterface$OutProcess.runNativeSide(SWTNativeInterface.java:1352)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.core.SWTNativeInterface.main_(SWTNativeInterface.java:1461)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.NativeInterface.main(NativeInterface.java:224)
Caused by: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: XPCOM error 0x80004005
    at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.error(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.initXULRunner(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Mozilla.create(Unknown Source)
    at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at chrriis.dj.nativeswing.swtimpl.components.core.NativeWebBrowser.createControl(NativeWebBrowser.java:431)
    ... 19 more

Without that it showing IE 9.0 or with another xulunner which i not confirm from where get this is working fine but showing firefox version 5.0. Any idea how i can update with latest firefox version.

Answer 3

Eclipse_4.4.2 now supports XULRunner24.0, you can try this version.

Answer 4

For Windows you can also use the Internet-Explorer as browser until eclipse supports xulrunner correctly (will be in a 4.3.x version).

For IE:

just specify

    -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=ie,mozilla

at the eclipse.ini.

You can read more about it here.