Desktop

The Desktop class allows a Java application to launch associated applications registered on the native desktop to handle a URI or a file.

Supported operations include:

• launching the user-default browser to show a specified URI;
• launching the user-default mail client with an optional mailto URI;
• launching a registered application to open, edit or print a specified file.

This class provides methods corresponding to these operations. The methods look for the associated application registered on the current platform, and la