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Tapio Holopainen wrote:
> 
> 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.

Although the original question used HTML as an example, I
think the question was more general, and therefore, AppletContext
falls far short as a solution.

Chris Kelley announced JConfig, a cross-platform solution
for providing system-level utilities, such as launching
external applications (and a lot more).  

> To download JConfig, go to:
> 
>     http://www.tolstoy.com/samizdat/jconfig.html


Paul Furbacher