I would like to “link” few file extensions to my java application under windows. When user double clicks file with “linked” extension, I would like to open my app and I need to know path to file that launched app.
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I would like to “link” few file extensions to my java application under windows. When user double clicks file with “linked” extension, I would like to open my app and I need to know path to file that launched app.
If you deploy the app. using Java Web Start, an interest in file-types can be declared in the launch file. See the demo. of the file services, which..
When the user double clicks a
.zzzfile, it should open in the app. Actually, the word ‘prompts’ there is not the whole story. If you launch the sand-boxed version you will be prompted as to associating the file-type. The trusted version does not prompt.To add more user-control to the process, look to the
IntegrationServicethat was introduced in 1.6.0_18 (I don’t have a demo. of that one yet). You might run it at start-up, after checking with the user.