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The Desktop class was added in Java 6 to handle launching associated applications on the native desktop.

Following shows how to launch the associated application to open a file.

File file = new File("/tmp/file.txt");
Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
desktop.open(file);

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The Desktop class was added in Java 6 to handle launching associated applications on the native desktop.

Following shows how to launch a browser to display a URI.

URI uri = new URI("http://www.objects.com.au");
Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
desktop.browse(uri);

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