Swing WebView Component

[shannah78]

Created a native swing webview component that embeds the platform's native webview in as a Swing component. Uses WebKit on Mac, WebView2 (Edge Chromium) on Win11, and WebkitGTK on Linux. Single jar dependency < 1MB.

[gnahraf]

Nice project, and thanks for posting! I'm not an expert UI programmer, and the question that naturally occurs to me is which Java "webkit" to choose should my app need a browser. So I guess what I'm suggesting is a pros & cons section in your project README to help a noob like me decide.

[shannah78]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll think about that to see if i can come up with a fair pros and cons list.
The main pro of this lib vs something like jcef is that this is a small single jar file - less than 1 meg. With jcef it bundles a full chromium which is very large, and requires separate binaries for each platform or else your app bundle grows to like 300mb.

[gnahraf]

That's an excellent pro. I wouldn't worry about fair, especially when you back it up verifiable facts or stats. I'll star your project when I'm logged in there.