I want to take a GUI that I already made and integrate it inside of a website..Is this possible?

You need to create a jar that contains your applet, then use the <applet> tag in your html.


YourApplet.java


put this in your html...

If you want to do rich web application development though, you need to use a web framework. You can find a list of them here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks#Java

Thanks for the two responses. First one looks simple enough, does it apply to other gui's as well (replace .jar with .exe)?

And as far as your second response, I am new to using the web for my apps, so I have no idea waht you mean by rich web development, can you briefly explain the pros and cons of rich web vs simple GUI apps?

This post was edited by oOn on Oct 29 2013 05:14pm

exe is not an archive file so no, you can do something like this if you dont want to make a jar file

you're confused because of terminology. you're using "simple GUI" to refer to java swing, i think, with plans of creating an applet. 99% of the time you dont want to do that. he's just telling you to avoid writing java applets if you intend to make a web app. you're welcome to use java (though i find it a bit tedious at times), but you'll have to use a java web framework and css to style them. which is completely different from what you're doing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Applet#Disadvantages

it's been years since i looked at it, but at the time GWT also allowed you to use swing and it'll convert it to javascript/html. you'll still have to modify your code to use it.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Oct 29 2013 10:21pm

strongly recommend against using java for anything except backend for web dev

Orly? What do you think of qtGUI?

can you use that for web apps? i wasn't aware.