How to install XULRunner for Eclipse

Question

I'm using the SWT browser widget to develop an application in Java with Eclipse ("Kepler").

Now I want to use the Mozilla API and downloaded the latest sdk from XULRunner from this site: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/latest/

How can I tell Eclipse to use XULRunner so I can use the following code line?

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

Any suggestions on the same are highly appreciated.

Chloral

See eclipse.org/atf/old/downloads/base_files/… and #295560. – Vignola

I followed the instructions on the first site but I got the following error: Could not parse application.ini. Then I found a thread on stackoverflow where someone said, that it is not necessary to register it. So how can I tell Eclipse to use XULRunner? Comment to the 2nd link: I don't want to use another class which uses SWT and I think its not necessary to do so and change the existing classes I have embedded... – Chloral

Answer 1

SWT is not supporting 'latest' XULRunner.
See Bug 327696 – [Browser] implement support for xulrunner >= 4.0

See also The SWT FAQ, Q: How do I specify the default type of native renderer that is used by the Browser? or Q: How do I explicitly use Mozilla as the Browser's underlying renderer? or so.

For example,

1. Download the last one which is available on eclipse from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/10.0.4esr/sdk/
2. Extract it to C:\
3. Edit your app's Run Configuration->Arguments->VM Arguments, add following argument. -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=C:\xulrunner

Carnot

Great - got it! Your example was very helpful :) You should only just add a "\bin" behind the given path cause it's a sdk: -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=C:\xulrunner\bin – Chloral

How should I know which is last one which is available on eclipse? According to this bug report - bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=422561 I tried 24.0b10... – Lionel

Answer 2

I'm using Eclipse Kepler on Debian Wheezy.

This is how I circunvented the trouble:

1. Make sure you don't have any package named xulrunner:

   $ dpkg --list | fgrep xulrunner

2. Install xulrunner-10.0 ( DO NOT install xulrunner-17.0 )

   $ apt-get install xul-runner-10.0

3. Insert the following line in your eclipse.ini file:

   -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner-10.0

4. Restart Eclipse. It should pick up the new configuration and should work as expected.

Madera

Where do you find xulrunner-10.0? – Bohlin

You can find all xulrunner releases here. – Sulfaguanidine

I've tried with an app based in Eclipse Kepler, to use ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/10.0.4esr/… , but the JVM crashes when trying to instantiate a Mozilla browser. Should I try version 10.0.0 instead of 10.0.4esr? – Eighteenmo