How to launch standard browser out of Java application?

how to I open a URL with the systems standard browser with Java?

I currently u开发者_开发百科se this code for opening a specific URL (locally stored html file), which works fine when I run the application with my IDE (Eclipse), but after bundling the software, it doesn't work any more.

    url = MainWindow.class.getResource("mySite.html");

    helpMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {    
            try {
                java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().browse(url.toURI());
            }
            catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }
            catch (IOException e1) {
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    });

Any suggestsions? Thank you very much!

but after bundling the software, it doesn't work any more.

You cannot browse to URL's which points to resources inside a JAR file. You need to extract the resource (just get InputStream using getResourceAsStream()) and store it somewhere else (as temp file?) and then browse it instead.

Any idea why it doesn't work? You can try JDIC, it has not been updated for a while but should do the trick.

Bare Bones Browser Launch is a good solution. It's very easy to use:

BareBonesBrowserLaunch.openURL("http://www.stackoverflow.com");