2009 JavaOne HtmlUnit technical session online content

HtmlUnit is a pure java GUI-Less browser, which allows high-level manipulation of web pages, such as filling forms, clicking links, accessing attributes and values of specific elements within the pages, you do not have to create lower-level requests of TCP/IP or HTTP, but just getPage(url), find a hyperlink, click() and you have all the HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax are automatically processed.

The most common use of HtmlUnit is test automation of web pages, but sometimes it can be used for web scraping, or downloading website content.

2009 JavaOne conference website now has the online version of the technical session "HtmlUnit: An Efficient Approach to Testing Web Applications
TS-4238"

You can view it at http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-4238&yr=2009&track=soa