Opening a web browser on a MAC

Hi,
this is the code I use to open a internet explorer window at the approiate address in my programme when running on a PC.
//Method that opens an explorer window at the relevant address
public void openBrowse()
String cmdlocation ="c:\\program files\\internet explorer\\iexplore.exe";
site = "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Nucleotide";
String gweb = cmdlocation + " " + site;
try
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(gweb);
catch(IOException ioe)
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this,
"Website is Unavailable",
"Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
//System.exit(0);
Is it possible to do the same on any Mac OS? I am not sure about the address of the relevant internet browser for a Mac.
Has anyone got any ideas?
Thanks ,
Gareth.

Wouldn't it be great if one of the Java System properties was the path to the default system browser?I don't think that would help. For a start, not all OSes have a concept of a default browser. Secondly, I think the way you'd open a URL in Safari would be open -a Safari http://www.etc rather than /Applications/Safari.app http://www.etc

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