To launch Internet Explorer on button click.

Question

Hello friends
I want to open Internet Explorer with a html file on button click. The html file will contain some report data in html format which I want to show to the user on button click.
Please help me in doing this.

Answer 1

Maybe you're looking for a faster solution than Joni's thread. I just made this for an Info Screen, maybe it helps:
// lunch the Browser and view the HTML file
public void openBrowserWith (String aHtmlLocation) {
     try {
          Runtime.getRuntime().exec(getExplorerPath() + " " + aHtmlLocation);
     catch (Exception e) {}
// this method should return the program path of your own browser; it needn't be as hard-coded as I did:
public String getExplorerPath() {
     return "c:\\program files\\plus!\\Microsoft Internet\\iexplore.exe"
// I think you know how to add a JButton and a ActionListener to your application; thus, we only need to implement the actionPerformed method:
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     String command = e.getActionCommand();
     if ("OK".equals(command))
          openBrowserWith(getHtmlLocation());
public String getHtmlLocation {
     return "http://" or "file://" and "the path where your HTML file is";
}