Eclipse & Pivot: Launching as an applet

Question

I'm developing an application in Java using Pivot for the GUI elements, in the Eclipse IDE.

Since the end product is supposed to be an applet, I am wondering, if there is a way to launch the application in a browser through Eclipse during the development phase.

I don't want instructions on how to write an html page that loads the libraries and jnlp or something like that, I'm only asking if there is a way to automatically do all that in one-click-mode through Eclipse.

Answer 1

The Run Configurations in Eclipse support launching a Java Applet.

http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.jdt.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftask-launching_java_applet.htm

The Hello World tutorial page on Apache's website gives you the information needed to configure the applet.

http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/hello-world.html

[Edit in response to comment] Open the Run Configurations Window and add a new "Java Applet". That's what the first link was meant to indicate you are able to do.

The second link provides a snippet of how you're supposed to run applets using the BrowserApplicationContext, and it's quite specific in the values you provide (and map one for one to the Eclipse launcher values):

<applet code="org.apache.pivot.wtk.BrowserApplicationContext$HostApplet" archive="lib/pivot-core-[version].jar,lib/pivot-wtk-[version].jar,lib/pivot-wtk-terra-[version].jar,lib/pivot-tutorials-[version].jar" width="160" height="80" > <param name="application_class_name" value="org.apache.pivot.tutorials.HelloJava"> </applet>

The Main and Parameters tabs should be the only one you're looking at.