Embedding XULRunner application on Java

Question

My goal is to get Limewire(JAVA) and Songbird(XULRunner) to run together.

I was thinking the best way is to run the XUL application(songbird) inside

Answer 1

The official XUL implementation by Mozilla and is heavily dependent on Gecko. Gecko is not written in Java nor embedded in AWT/Swing/SWT (at least without using JNI).

So, the short answer is: no. You must either use JNI or use heavy, complex and incomplete third party libaries.

However, JavaXPCOM seems to allow embedding Gecko: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaXPCOM But in that case you'll depend on Gecko... and I don't know if that's enough to run Songbird.