Convert Java Swing to web-based Application

There is a new open source project webswing.org. It is a web server where you deploy your swing application. The application is rendered to html canvas through websockets, so you get the exact same look and feel like on desktop.

AjaxSwing is a run-time tool and needs a server license for commercial use.

You might want to try Mia Transformer -parts of the website are in French-. They change Swing Java code to GWT Java Code and GWT changes it to Javascript and then if you want you can use Google V8 compiler for faster execution. Of course it is not 100%. We are going to try it for a large project and see if it works.

The other link provided to us was SwingWeb. Have not checked it out though.

Will keep you posted. If you come across a workable solution please share.

For a Java programmer the Vaadin framework is very similar to Java Swing.

Architecturally, Vaadin and Swing applications are of course quite different (web vs desktop), but because the UI logic in Vaadin applications is run on the server side (in a JVM), all the Java classes and application logic from Swing applications is typically fully reusable. You can see in the hello-world sample how similar the event-diven programming model is to Swing.

Furthermore, Vaadin effectively hides all the web specific details (html, css, rpc,...) from Java application programmers, making it a familiar and effective tool to convert old Swing applications to modern HTML5 web applications.