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Asked: 2026-05-15T07:55:04+00:00

Thinking outside of the box here… What possible basic approaches could be taken in

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Thinking outside of the box here…

What possible basic approaches could be taken in an effort to create a Flex component that could run Java?

I know I can easily use flex to browse to or launch a Java app, but there are things I can only do if I can run the Java from WITHIN an MXML Component.

I the strictest sense, I know it’s not impossible (ie: if you had all the source code for flex and for the jvm), but what’s the least impractical means to this end?

Edit:
Lots of people are interested in the reason WHY someone might want to do this. I see it as irrelevant to HOW to do it, but here goes: I have over 100 proprietary pixel-reading windows programs that I could port to Mac in this way, much easier than any other way. But instead of arguing the premises, the winning answer will ignore the reasons why, and focus on the HOW.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A while back I prototyped something like this. I exposed a window / native app via a VNC server and then used an open source VNC client library to connect to the VNC server. It was totally hacky but it worked. Performance was not great but was usable. Here is the Flash VNC client library I used:
    http://www.wizhelp.com/flashlight-vnc/index.html

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