I am looking to implement Etherpad's functionality into a Java Swing application. There is a Java library for accessing Etherpad's HTTP API, but it only seems to support getting/setting the entire pad text. I want to have live multi-user editing of plain text in Java, where all users see each other's changes realtime while editing. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
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What's wrong with [Pastebin](http://pastebin.com/), [Google Docs](http://docs.google.com/), or [sharing a terminal session](http://tmate.io/)? – pieman72 Jan 31 '15 at 02:40
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@pieman72 I want to extend the functionality of an existing application with collaborative editing. See http://etherpad.org/ for what I want. I would like to use its API, but it only supports getting/setting entire documents, which is where I'm stuck. – Skylar Ittner Jan 31 '15 at 02:44
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Just use: http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/swing/SimpleSwingBrowser.java.htm and point it at the Etherpad Pad URL you want to edit...
If I'm honest though, your question is not very clear in what you want to accomplish.
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I found a Java library for easily accessing Etherpad's API. I combined this with the JavaFX web browser component and a custom Swing UI.
For anyone finding this on Google or something, you can see my code on GitHub as a standalone app here: https://github.com/Netsyms/SyMATPadViewer
Feel free to use it (BSD license), just change the PADS_URL in the PadUtils class and put your Etherpad API key in the file padkey at the root of the src directory.
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