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## com.huguesjohnson
Class LaunchBrowser

    java.lang.Object
      com.huguesjohnson.LaunchBrowser

public class LaunchBrowser
extends java.lang.Object

class LaunchBrowser usage: String result=(new LaunchBrowser()).launch("http://www.wherever.com"); alternate usage: String verboseResult=(new LaunchBrowser()).launch("http://www.wherever.com",true); alternate usage: String verboseResult=(new LaunchBrowser()).launch("file://c:\\some-folder\\some-file.html",true); alternate usage: String verboseResult=(new LaunchBrowser()).launch("file:///some-dir/some-file.html",true); This has only been tested on Windows 2000, if it doesn't work on another OS please set verbose to true to debug. I can just about guarantee this will not work with OS/2, the algorithm to lookup the operating system explicitly checks for Windows and MacOS with the default being UNIX/Linux. UNIX/Linux is considered the default because each "flavor" of UNIX/Linux returns a different name to the System.getProperty("os.name") call.. there is no standard name. For example, HP-UX returns "HP-UX" while Solaris returns "Solaris". This also assumes that if UNIX/Linux is the OS, then netscape is installed. As far as I know there is no way to pass UNIX/Linux an URL and have it figure out the default browser. Should this implement runnable?

Author:
  Hugues Johnson

Constructor Summary
`LaunchBrowser()` constructor

Method Summary
`java.lang.String` | `launch(java.lang.String url)` Launches a web browser with the specified url.
`java.lang.String` | `launch(java.lang.String url, boolean verbose)` Launches a web browser with the specified url.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### LaunchBrowser

    public LaunchBrowser()

  constructor

Method Detail

### launch

    public java.lang.String launch(java.lang.String url)

  Launches a web browser with the specified url. First tries to use current browser session, if no browser is loaded it starts a new session. See comments for the class for proper usage and known issues.

  Parameters:
    `url` - the address to open

### launch

    public java.lang.String launch(java.lang.String url,
                                   boolean verbose)

  Launches a web browser with the specified url. First tries to use current browser session, if no browser is loaded it starts a new session. See comments for the class for proper usage and known issues.

  Parameters:
    `url` - the address to open
    `verbose` - whether or not to return verbose output, useful for debugging. This is false if launch(url) is used.

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