opening a PDF file

[miguel lisboa]

i dont know why this code doesnt give an error but also doesnt open the pdf file
can anyone please help me?
(the file is in the right path)

 public class AppPDF {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try{
	  Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler C:/C.pdf");
     }
     catch(Exception ex){
	  ex.printStackTrace();
     }
  }
}   

[Wouter Oet]

A must-read about Runtime.exec: here.

[Paul Clapham]

You might consider this method:

Desktop.getDesktop().open(new File("C:/C.pdf"));

which has made that Windows hack obsolete.

[miguel lisboa]

Paul Clapham wrote:You might consider this method:

Desktop.getDesktop().open(new File("C:/C.pdf"));

which has made that Windows hack obsolete.

thank you, Paul

but now i've another problem: if my path has spaces in it, it wont work:

Errorjava.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The file: C:\Documents and Settings\...\C.pdf doesn't exist.

is there any workaround for this situation?

[chaitanya karthikk]

Hi miguel, I had the same problem while writing a program in C++, there I used

c:\\progra~1\\java\\jre6\\lib\\ext\\jxl.jar

.
I don't know how far it will work in Java.
I wrote that program to copy my Java files to respective directories as a part of installing my application on the clients system.

[Maneesh Godbole]

Put the file name inside double quotes to work around the space problem

[miguel lisboa]

thanks