Open link in a browser from jTexPane hyperlink

Question

Hi,
I create a hyperlink in a jTextPane, and it's like this:
jTextPane1.setContentType("text/html");
jTextPane1.setText("<a href=http://www.yahoo.com>Yahoo!</a>");
It's working, but then the yahoo page is displayed in that jTextPane1..How do I change it so that the page is opened in a default browser?
Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

Heres a little snippet that might do what you are after ... NB: this runs an linux box that has the application firefox in its path, thus able to run ... you might need to use the full path of iexplorer eg c:/windows/program ...etc
hope this helps
public class run
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
       String url = "http://slashdot.org";
       Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("firefox " + url);
       p.waitFor();
       System.out.println("Done.");
}