Executing an HTML file within java program

Question

I want my java code to be able to open/execute an HTML file that I have. How do you do this?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can display html in a java app, but it is not so simple to run a browser. What you want to look up is the WebBrowser class. Here is an excerpt from some code of mine that displays a url in the browser app in a panel, but there's some chaff in my code you would not be interested in (I'm using a card layout). You're better off loocing up org.jdesktop.jdic.browser which contains the WebBrowser class    /**
     * Reveal the container with the browser display. The browser display is
     * currently hidded using a CardLayout, so it is a simple matter to swap
     * displays; however, we put off actually loading the web page until the
     * first time the display is revealed.
     * @return true if the URL could be resolved and the given web page
     * displayed.
    public boolean showBrowser(
        java.net.URL pURL )
        // See if the web page component has not initialized.
        if ( pWebBrowser == null )
            pWebBrowser = new WebBrowser();
            pBrowserPane.setViewportView( pWebBrowser );
        if ( aLastURLVisited == null || ! aLastURLVisited.equals( pURL ) )
            pWebBrowser.refresh();
            pWebBrowser.setURL( pURL );
            aLastURLVisited = pURL;
        pDualLayout.show( pDualPanel, BROWSER_PANEL );
        return true;
    }