Re: Launching a file via the "appropriate" app

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From: Tapio Holopainen
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 00:00

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Eric The Fish wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to make a java application launch a file via the appropriate
> application? In other words, say the file in question happens to be an html
> file, I'd like to just say to the platform, go open this file and have it
> launch Netscape or IE or whatever is installled to handle this file type.
> 
> And especially, is there a way to do this while remaining platform
> independent? I know how to do this through the Windows API, but I suppose if
> other OS's don't support this functionality, I may be stuck forcing the user
> to configure "help apps" inside my application (yuck!)
> 
> Eric Schwarzenbach

I'm not really sure if you are looking for this, but
java.applet.AppletContext interface contains some useful methods for
showing e.g html files on browser.

- Tapio

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