Control external windows in your SWT application

Solution engineers were considering about a solution that a harness UI controls multiple applications, including CLI (SSH, TELNET, terminal server) and windows desktop applications. They needed to combine the various existing applications windows (maybe including CLI shell) into a standalone GUI application, that has multiple displays of sub-windows (or inner panels), and controls them in an aggregation way.

Our infrastructures are written in different languages, such as Java, C, TCL, etc. The GUI application is required to be written in Java in order to keep and use existing stable infrastructure libraries. The problem comes that how to embed external application windows in Java GUI application?!

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