Convert Java Swing to web-based Application

Question

I have Java swing application. I want to convert to web base application. What is easiest way? Is there any tool available, preferably open source code?

Answer 1

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.