Opening up a file with de

From	"Mary Walker" <mary.walker@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Opening up a file with de
Message-ID	<45698ec2$1_3@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> (permalink)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Date	2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
Organization	TDS.net

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Hi,

Is it possible, in java, to open up a file (using the JFileChooser class) 
and then execute it by telling JVM to use the default program.  For example 
in windows, when I double click on a jpg file the image opens up in my 
default graphics viewer - or if it has a .doc extension Microsoft word opens 
it up.  What I'd like to do is write a Java GUI which can open up a file, 
make changes to that file programatically and then allow the user to press a 
button which views the modified file with it's default program. The files I 
am modifying can be anything (i.e. images, word files, etc) so my java 
program does not know which program to open the files up with.

 This is no big deal of course, because all I'm doing at the moment is 
making the changes to the file and then displaying them by double clicking 
on them in windows explorer but I'd just like the flexibility of viewing 
them from my java GUI without having to browse to it again.

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