Universal Browser Launch

Name: gm110360 Date: 08/14/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
If for nothing else besides directing users to your home page or support page on the web, almost all applications need (or could use) the ability to open a web page. Unfortunately, this currently requires a fair amount of platform specific code to implement in Java. It would be great if Java included a universal mechanism to launch the user's default web browser.

For example:
   System.browser.open("http://spam.abuse.net/overview/spambad.shtml");

An error code could be returned if the platform did not support the feature or if Java was unable to locate a browser.

JUSTIFICATION :
Such a universal browser launch feature would make it easier to write cross-platform pure Java applications.

Please see:
   http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=314979
   http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=247320
   http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=254067

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public class BroswerLaunch {
   public static void main(String[] argv) {
      System.browser.open("http://spam.abuse.net/overview/spambad.shtml");
      }
   }

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(Incident Review ID: 189088)
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