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Hi there,
I've been searching for about two days now, trying to find a solution to our problem. We want to open MS Explorer from a link in Netscape. So basicaly force the link to open a new window in MS Explorer (this is for an internal jsp application).
I think that the answer that I found in some of these forums, is the solution. So I tried it. I used this code:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\progra~1\\intern~1\\IEXPLORE.exe http://java.sun.com");
But I get the following error:
java.io.IOException: CreateProcess: C:\progra~1\intern~1\IEXPLORE.exe http://java.sun.com error=3
at java.lang.Win32Process.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.Win32Process.(Win32Process.java:66)
at java.lang.Runtime.execInternal(Native Method)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:551)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:418)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:361)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:325)
at _0002fprojectMenu_0002ejspprojectMenu_jsp_30._jspService(_0002fprojectMenu_0002ejspprojectMenu_jsp_30.java:2035)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:126)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.java:174)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:261)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:369)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:503)
at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:559)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:156)
at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java:338)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
Is there anything that I'm doing wrong? Maybe somebody out there can help me out with this one. Or maybe somebody has a better way of opening an MS Explorer window from a link.
Thanks and hope to hear from somebody sooooooon.

Answer 1

I will go one better. Generally speaking, Java will not let you do something like that because it's a security risk. For example, if all you had to do was click on a link to launch MS Explorer, then I could put up a web page that launches regedit on your computer whenever you clicked on a link.
I think you are much better off coding (or using) JFileDialog from within an applet for this specific purpose.