🚀 go-pugleaf

Alex Humphreys wrote:
> 
> Is it at all possible to open an HTML page from a Java Application (say,
> click on an About button and my company's web page pops up in IE...).
> Does this get into RMI and JNI and all that other stuff I don't
> understand?  Where can I find out about it?
> 
> See, I'm looking for a) ways to open a good Help screen and b)
> alternative ways to print a report (since I'm having trouble doing it in
> Java) and HTML suits my purposes fine.  If you think it'd be easier to
> just pound these things out in Java, then please tell me!


Your Java application might have some setting that points to
an installed browser.  Say, c:\netscape\netscape.exe.  Then,
you could call .exec(), pass the string of where the browser is,
and add a parameter of a html file or a URL to load.



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