Help wanted in opening a website in JFrame??

Question

Hi all,
I am planning to open a website in JFrame, I open up a JTextPane and use setPage(), but i get a IOException...
Do I need to open a socket or create a URL object ...
please guide..
Thanx in advance

Answer 1

DO U MEAN JTextPane or JEditorPane????
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
/* change to Jframe */
public class Ajuda extends JInternalFrame {
BorderLayout borderLayout1 = new BorderLayout();
final JEditorPane htmlPane = new JEditorPane();
final JTextField urlTextField = new JTextField();
public Ajuda() {
try {
jbInit();
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
public void jbInit() throws Exception {
htmlPane.setEditable(false);
urlTextField.setText("file:/index.htm");
loadPage(urlTextField.getText());
htmlPane.validate();
htmlPane.repaint();
htmlPane.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkListener() {
public void hyperlinkUpdate (HyperlinkEvent event) {
if (event.getEventType() == HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED) {
urlTextField.setText(event.getURL().toString());
if (event instanceof HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent) {
HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument) htmlPane.getDocument();
doc.processHTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent ((HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent) event);
else {
loadPage(urlTextField.getText());
this.setClosable(true);
this.setIconifiable(true);
this.setMaximizable(true);
this.setResizable(true);
this.getContentPane().setLayout(borderLayout1);
this.getContentPane().add(BorderLayout.CENTER, new JScrollPane(htmlPane));
public void loadPage(String url) {
try {
htmlPane.setPage(new URL(urlTextField.getText()));
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);