java application

Hello Friends,
Is there a way in Java to run your browser in your application.i.e. in VB or VC++ you can actually run the browser in your application and can manipulate with the browser's default properties.I would like to do the same thing in Java.
Regards,
Kavita.

Kavita,
I'm not an expert on this subject, but my first response would have to be no you cannot run a web browser inside your JAVA application. JAVA application runs inside a JVM which allows it to be platform independent. I'm not even going to get into the security issues with running another application inside a JAVA application. Furthermore, the JVM wouldn't know how to interpret the other program's machine code. However, you can run JAVA applets inside a web browser that supports JAVA. If it doesn't, you can always download the plug-in. Finally, you can kick off other applications from JAVA using java.lang.Runtime.exec(). This is not recommend, because you're making your program platform dependent.
Cheers,
-Peter