How to get Eclipse SWT Browser component running on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) with Webkit?

Question

I use the SWT Browser control in my Eclipse RCP application. On Linux Ubuntu 10.10 this depends on the user having installed xulrunner-1.9.2. This works fine.

Howeve

Answer 1

I'm not on Ubuntu, but think that doesn't matter much.

1. Check the version of libwebkit-1.0-2 (it should be >= 1.2.0)
2. Install this package if absent
3. Check that /usr/lib and /usr/lib/jni is in java.library.path
4. If you use SWT 3.6, also check that appropriate webkit jni wrapper is installed (e.g. libswt-webkit-gtk-3.6-jni and org.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK system property is set to `True

Edit: To localize source of the problem create minimalistic project and show the output

package foo;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWTError;
import org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

public class BrowserTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        System.out.println(System.getProperty("java.library.path"));
        System.out.println(System.getProperty("org.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK"));

        Display display = new Display();
        Shell shell = new Shell(display);

        try {
            Browser browser = new Browser(shell, SWT.NONE);
            browser.setSize(shell.getSize());
            browser.setUrl("google.com");
        } catch (SWTError e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        shell.open();

        while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
                display.sleep();
            }
        }

        display.dispose();

    }
}