Open a pdf in whatever the OS chooses

Hello,
I'm writing a program that must operate on both windows, unix, possibly mac os. Basically if Java runs on the machine, I'm assuming that it may be running my program. I've gotten by without having to worry about system things until now: I want the ability to launch whatever the system has as a pdf reader. I know how to use a runtime process to execute a given program. But what I want to do is just say, here is the pdf file to the OS, let the OS figure out how to open it, and have it then be opened for display.
Is this possible?

For those of you who may wonder this like I did and are looking for an example:
import java.awt.Desktop;
File help = new File("gfxcr_help.pdf");
Desktop.getDesktop().open(help);

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== Issue
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Firefox is having problems with certain web sites
== Description
==
Sometimes (but not always), when I try to open a pdf document from the US bankruptcy court website, I get a window asking if I want to use Adobe Acrobat. After I click "yes", I get a bland screen.
== URL of affected sites
==
http://
== Troubleshooting information
==
Firefox Version
3.6.3
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
Skype extension for Firefox 2.2.0.70 false
Java Console 6.0.01 false
Java Console 6.0.02 true
== Firefox version
==
3.6.3
== Operating system
==
Windows 7
== User Agent
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
== Plugins installed
==
*-Office Plugin for Netscape Navigator
*Download and Print Plug-in DLL
*Default Plug-in
*Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45
*Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape

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