Wanting to open a HTML document in users default browser using Menu Items

Question

I have a couple of Menu items that I want to open up various HTML documents.
menuHelpItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)
});I've seen a couple of 'solutions' to people asking about opening files, but none even compiled never mind ran. It's in my parent program, and any solution needing to throw IOException (lots of things annoyingly seem to) that'll mean the listeners need to which never seems to work. Even if it did though, the class would have to and so would all the others. Messy.
Best I've done is open up a new JEditorPane based on the url of the HTML files, but this is definately not good enough as the font, layout, links are all screwed and if I could fix it, it would no doubt take longer than I have.
So basically, say you have a button, how do you make it open "resources/SearchHelp.html"?

Answer 1

"http://www.google.com"; //
Interesting. I changed my code to this:
private void showHelp(String url)
     try
          String[] cmd = new String[5];
          cmd[0] = "cmd.exe";
          cmd[1] = "/C";
          cmd[2] = "rundll32";
          cmd[3] = "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler";
          cmd[4] = PronunciationDictionary.class.getResource(url).toString();
          Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec( cmd );
     catch (IOException e)
          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Unable to load help file. Please try again.", "Help - Dictionary A'la Lewis", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
}and I printed out PronunciationDictionary.class.getResource(url).toString(); before trying it and that worked fine. I click on the buttons but nothing happens, no error which is good, but nothing else either, which is bad. I thought maybe I was just doing it wrong, so I tried replacing it with just http://www.google.com but same thing, nothing happened at all.