Question

I need write an application to import html data into database. The user can insert his document, then edit it, bold it, italick it and so on. And Then I need to insert HTML data into database.
So I want to write standalone application in java (swt) that use tinyMCE.
any solution?

Answer 1

You can’t run TinyMCE by itself, it relies on having a full browser environment with JavaScript, ContentEditable, the whole works.

With recent developments you can try running WebKit in your app, and then TinyMCE inside that. I haven’t seen any apps actually doing this, but there are a couple of options to experiment with:

• JavaFX 2.0
• WebKit as the SWT Browser rendering engine

Or you could go with a pure Java HTML editor:

• This SO question has a few open source options
• Commercial editor (disclaimer: I work for this company, there are others)