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Creating a Simple Java Web Browser

5 February , 2008 by schiralli

Creating a simple web browser in Java is quite simple. Although i teach C++ (i must confess), for ease and speed of programming Java is great for beginners, especially for multi-platform GUI applications. That said, below is code for a simple Java based web browser. You could easily modify this code to browse the web for you autonomously (like a web trawling robot etc. great for advertising, or data mining – or just to create a quick search tool that does the work for you while you go have some lunch). You could also make a custom web browser for a special project – although don’t bother trying to compete against Firefox etc… especially if your only one person, it takes teams of people and many years to reach where we are today.
Just cut, paste, compile and run!
For those new to Java…
e.g.
To compile:

javac WebBrowser.java

To run:

java WebBrowser

Enjoy

WebBrowser.java

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Posted in Computers, Java, Programming | Tagged code, easy, Java, source, web browser | 9 Comments

9 Responses

on 8 October , 2008 at 3:26 pm | Log in to Reply himapm

Hi,

Hope you r doing gud.
I tried using the above code for web browser.
However, after running, I get the window where I can enter the url. But nothing seems to come.. I get connection refused error message. Do I have to do some settings change in IE ?
on 5 January , 2011 at 6:55 pm | Log in to Reply රාළ

Hey It works fine for me Thanks a lot
on 27 October , 2011 at 9:43 pm | Log in to Reply Eri Albar TheRoze

C:\Users\Zeromin0\Desktop\WebBrowser.java:84: ‘try’ without ‘catch’ or ‘finally’
try
^
C:\Users\Zeromin0\Desktop\WebBrowser.java:88: illegal start of type
});
^
C:\Users\Zeromin0\Desktop\WebBrowser.java:89: expected
editable = new JCheckBox();
^
C:\Users\Zeromin0\Desktop\WebBrowser.java:90: expected
editable.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
^
C:\Users\Zeromin0\Desktop\WebBrowser.java:90: illegal start of type
editable.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
^
C:\Users\Zeromin0\Desktop\WebBrowser.java:92: illegal start of expression
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
^
6 errors
on 27 October , 2011 at 10:00 pm | Log in to Reply Eri Albar TheRoze

sorry I was wrong write
This code Works
But input needs to be improved
on 27 October , 2011 at 10:01 pm | Log in to Reply Eri Albar TheRoze

I was Wrong This Code Works

Sory
on 26 June , 2012 at 7:06 am | Log in to Reply Gaurav Tak

good work sir !!!
thanks a lot……:)
on 23 August , 2012 at 8:16 pm | Log in to Reply Anggrahito Choco Latte

wow great tutorial sir..btw do you now how to adding encryption or mybe ssl certificate on this project.. so i can running https website.. thanks very much sir..
- on 28 August , 2012 at 2:23 pm | Log in to Reply schiralli
  
  I have not thought to try that yet myself, but if you do extend the code further please link your post back to my original blog post.
on 6 September , 2012 at 9:19 pm | Log in to Reply Rakesh Krishnan Nair

nice piece of code. can you please suggest ways how to make this web browser to enable cookies?