JS schrieb:

You want to open the webpage in the default browser, not in your java
application, right?

If yes, take a look at this SF-project
http://browserlauncher.sourceforge.net/

Jan

It is just a file. If you now its file name read it as a string chars.
See http://mindprod.com/applets/fileio.html for sample code.

if it is being served by a local webserver or application server, the
document will have a URL perhaps something like

http://localhost:81/xxxx/yyyy.html

Try it out with a browser to make sure you have the correct URL

then read it with a CGI-GET.
again see
http://mindprod.com/applets/fileio.html for sample code.

Assuming you just want to open your help file in a browser you can
launch the browser with something like:
Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\Program Files\Internet
Explorer\iexplore.exe " + "helpfile.html");

Ideally, you should use the installed default browser but I have no
idea how you would do that in an operating system in dependant way.

There are a number of ways to display a web page
from within a Java application, the first, and possibly
easiest, is to put your HTML in a JEditorPane.  A JEP
is unsuitable for 'real world' web pages, but chould be fine
for presenting basic information formatted as HTML.

You can see an example in 'The Giffer'* press F1 for the help file.
<http://www.physci.org/giffer/giffer0512.jnlp>

The second way, available to WebStart'ed applications, is to
use the WebStart equivalent of the applet 'showDocument'..
<http://www.physci.org/browserlauncher/jnlp/showdoc.jnlp>

A third way is to use a library like BrowserLauncher to
find the default browser and launch it..
<http://www.physci.org/browserlauncher/index.jsp>

HTH