Getting java gui to open a webpage in web browser

Question

I am trying to get a java gui to open a web page. So the gui runs some code that does things and then produces a html file. I then want this file to open in a web browser (preferrably Firefox) as soon as it is created. How would I go about doing that?

Answer 1

If you're using Java 6 or above, see the Desktop API, in particular browse. Use it like this (not tested):

// using this in real life, you'd probably want to check that the desktop // methods are supported using isDesktopSupported()...  String htmlFilePath = "path/to/html/file.html"; // path to your new file File htmlFile = new File(htmlFilePath);  // open the default web browser for the HTML page Desktop.getDesktop().browse(htmlFile.toURI());  // if a web browser is the default HTML handler, this might work too Desktop.getDesktop().open(htmlFile); 

Answer 2

Ya, But if you want to open the webpage in your default web browser by a java program then you can try using this code.

/// file OpenPageInDefaultBrowser.java public class OpenPageInDefaultBrowser {    public static void main(String[] args) {        try {          //Set your page url in this string. For eg, I m using URL for Google Search engine          String url = "http://www.google.com";          java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().browse(java.net.URI.create(url));        }        catch (java.io.IOException e) {            System.out.println(e.getMessage());        }    } } /// End of file