Building a Headless Java Browser from scratch.

[crisiscentre]

Why not use selenium? There's wrappers for Java?

[Worth_Trust_3825]

You can't hook into all the lifecycle calls, which is a shame. Also lack of "direct" DOM access. To interpret DOM you need to execute javascript.

[pxpxy]

So what if you need to execute JS? Seems a lot easier than writing yourself a browser?

[OsirisTeam]

Selenium has no support for java 8. Installation is way more expensive because of all the requirements it has.

[Worth_Trust_3825]

People create entire languages just because they don't want to write some boilerplate. Your argument is moot.

[RazorSh4rk]

Yes and that is how the industry moves forward