Developing Database Applications with WebAppRunner

WebAppRunner is the Eclipse RCP application I created to run web applications as standalone desktop applications. I had explained earlier how this application could be used by creating a demo FileList application. In this post I am going to show how WebAppRunner can be used to create Database applications.

I have created a demo application, SQLiteApp.

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WebAppRunner – Run your web applications standalone

Last week I wrote a blog post about how Java objects can be passed to JavaScript code running in the SWT Browser control. I mentioned that I was working on an Eclipse RCP app that could run web apps as standalone apps in the SWT browser control.

That application is now ready. If you want to give it a try, download it from following links. The application is about 21 MB in size.

JRE is not packaged in the above application. You will have to download and install it, if you don’t have it already.

I have also created a sample app to show how a web page can call Java APIs. The application uses JDK File APIs to get list of files. Download FileListApp from here. Below is a screen shot of this application –

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