Rendering HTML output on Java 2D/3D Objects

Question

Hi all, I want to read an HTML file and render an HTML output to the objects in Java 2D or Java 3D world.
For doing this, I am following the steps as
1> Read HTML file
2> Capture its output
3> Write captured output to the buffered image.
4> Use that buffered image to be shown on Java 2D/3D object as a texture.
How can I capture the HTML output?
If you have any other way, please suggest me.
Regards

Answer 1

import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class captureHTML extends JPanel{
    public BufferedImage bufferedImage ;
    public Image image, capturedImage ;
    public Graphics2D g2d;
    public captureHTML() {
        capturedImage = capture("http://www.google.com");
        bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(1000,700,BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
        g2d = bufferedImage.createGraphics();
        g2d.drawImage(capturedImage,0,0,this);
        image = bufferedImage.getScaledInstance
                    ((int)(-1),
                    (int)(-1), 
                    Image.SCALE_SMOOTH) ;
    public Image capture(String str)
        URL url;
        JEditorPane jep = null;
        try {
            url = new URL(str);
            try {
                jep = new JEditorPane(url);
                jep.setContentType("text/html");
                jep.setPage(url);
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
        } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        Image jepImage = jep.createImage(500,500);
        return jepImage;
    public void paint(Graphics g)
            System.out.println("paint called");
            if (getSize().width <= 0 || getSize().height <= 0)
                return;
            Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
            if (image != null && isShowing()) 
                g2.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
    public static void main(String args[])
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        int w = 1000;
        int h = 700;
        f.setSize(w, h);
        f.getContentPane().setSize(w, h);
        f.getContentPane().add(new captureHTML());
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(1);
        f.setVisible(true);
}I Implemented the code as db suggested, I think it will work. But at the moment without any error I am getting only blank black screen. Please have a look at capture( ) method. I think there is a problem in this method but I cant figure out whats going wrong.
Regards