JDesk documentation

Everything you need to build with JDesk.

A framework for desktop apps with a Java 25 core and a web frontend, rendered by the operating system’s own WebView. New here? Read Getting started top to bottom. Already know the basics? Jump to a guide, a concept, or the reference.

Read the introduction Install JDesk

Start here

Getting started

Understand the model, install the toolchain, and build a working app that calls Java from the web UI.

→Introduction
→Installation
→Your first app
→Project structure

Build

Guides

Task-oriented how-tos for commands, events, capabilities, packaging, and everything you do while building.

→Defining commands
→Emitting events
→Streaming binary data
→Capabilities & permissions
→Serving assets
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Understand

Concepts

How the pieces fit: the architecture, the asynchronous typed IPC, and the Java-enforced security model.

→Architecture overview
→How IPC works
→Security model
→Threading & event loop
→Native memory & FFM

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Reference

Exact, complete descriptions of the public API surface and the command / event vocabulary.

→Java API
→Gradle plugin
→IPC protocol
→Capabilities JSON
→Error codes
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Prefer to read the source?

JDesk is Apache-2.0 and developed in the open.

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