Is it possible to embed java program (or applet) in a pdf file

Question

I was wondering if it is possible to embed a java program or an applet into a pdf file. Any way of achieving this is okay for me (latex, adobe acrobat pro, etc).

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

No. Not if you are not talking about security holes, anyway.

Escape From PDF, great blog about security. For educational use only.

Answer 2

You can embed just about anything in a PDF as an attachment.

And clicking on an "attachment annotation" gives the user the option to either view/launch or save it locally.

You can create such annotations programmatically in a number of different libraries (such as iText/iTextSharp), or use the Acrobat Pro UI to do it By Hand.

You can also embed Flash into a PDF, and control its execution to some extent via script in the PDF. If you can figure out how to wrap a .jar or convert it to SWF, you're there.