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Asked: 2026-05-16T02:27:54+00:00

For example, one application that I’m working on stores PDF files into a database,

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For example, one application that I’m working on stores PDF files into a database, then can pull them back out for display. I’ve got a call in there using Runtime.exec to do a “cmd /c start ” plus the PDF filename. Works great for Windows. Would prefer to find a platform independent way (trying to avoid OS detection with alternate methods for various OS) to do this though as we also run the software on Solaris and Mac.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Look at Desktop which has a open method and that would be platform independent.

    Launches the associated application to
    open the file.

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