Opening a new browser using Runtime.exec()...

Question

I am trying to open a new IE browser window (from Windows) using Runtime.exec( ) command. The problem is that it uses the existing browser window instead of opening a new window. (opens a new window only if there isn't any other browser window)
Here is the snippet of code that I am using to do this:
String WIN_PATH = "rundll32";
String WIN_FLAG = "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler";
String url = "http://www.cnn.com";
String cmd = WIN_PATH + " " + WIN_FLAG + " " + url;
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
Thanks in advance.
-Kishore

Answer 1

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opening browser window seems to be easy task, >Even easier with [Desktop.browse(URI)|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/Desktop.html#browse(java.net.URI)].
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..can someone help me with closing browser window from java?>Which browser window?
If you're app. opens a page that you control, it can be done from the web page. See [Have a Java button close the browser window|http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0282.html] or the JS based [Close the browser|http://www.rgagnon.com/jsdetails/js-0079.html].
If you do not control the page, don't close it - the user knows where the little 'x' button is.
As an aside, despite being opposite ends of the one question, I do not consider this question to be 'part' of the current thread. I think you would have been better off starting a dedicated thread and explaining more fully what the use case is (and adding lots of Dukes).