Opening an URL from a JAVA application

hi,
iam new to Java.
Currently iam designing a simle GUI which takes input(URL) from user in a test field and has a button.Upon clicking button i want to open the webPage specified by that URL in a default webBrowser.
How can i do that(opening webPage)?
advanced thanks for your help.
vd.rach

getting an error on that line as follows: "unreported
exception; must be caught or declared to be thrown".exec() throws IOException so catch it.
try {
Runtime.getRuntime.exec(...);
catch(IOException e) {
System.err("Cannot launch the browser: " + e.getMessage());
}On the side note: I found javaworld's [url http://www.javaworld.com/javatips/jw-javatip66_p.html]solution most useful in serving this purpose in a project, even though its a little bit platform specific.

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