What would be the suggestions of where to go to find information on the following:
I am trying to create an application that will open a desktop application in either a JAVA window or JFrame. I want Java to pass the information back and forth to the dekstop application. Any ideas on where to get some information on this subject?
OK For example; normally you would double click a application on your windows desktop and it would startup and run.
What I want to do is have a jave application run the program and instead of it opening normally, it willopen behind the scenes and will run within my java Frame or window? Where can I get some information on this anyone know?
The only thing I can think of is SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit). If I remember correctly, there is a container that can be used to 'hold' an OLE enabled application. Of course, this will limit you to Windows only (I think).
To get a look at SWT try this link;
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
And this article demonstartes how to embed a Word document;
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-ActivexSupportInSwt/index.html
