Plugging into Lobo's Pure Java Web Browser

Please check out the following excellent post by Geertjan Wielenga over at Dzone.com:

http://java.dzone.com/news/plugging-lobos-pure-java-web-b

It provides an outstanding how-to on a simple Lobo plugin. This is a great contribution to the project, and let's hope others like these from the community start to show up. There's only so much the maintainers of the project (i.e. me) can do, considering all of the other outstanding work. Community help is critical to the success of an open source project where resources are limited, obviously.

I'd also like to address someone's comment to the effect that there's no need for a new Java application that does this, that what is already there should be reused, and so forth. This sort of argument always comes up when someone proposes an innovative new software project. I'm sure the developers of jNode, for example, might encounter or will encounter similar arguments. The reasons for why a pure Java browser built from the ground up is a good idea are already layed out in the Lobo Browser page, as Geertjan Wielenga himself points out. We're not talking about recreating what already exists in Java. If that were it, I don't think I'd be that interested in this project. We have bigger plans. You'll start to see what I mean by version 0.98, assuming everything goes as planned.