Launching a file via the "appropriate" app

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From: Eric The Fish
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 00:00

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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

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