从Eclipse插件启动URL

Question

I'd like to have my Eclipse plugin cause a URL to be opened by the users' default browser. This seems like pretty standard behavior, but I haven't been able to find any docs on how to do this.

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

If you want it in an external browser, you don't need to create one. This is the way:

PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getBrowserSupport().getExternalBrowser().openURL(new URL("http://www.example.com/"));

Answer 2

Use Program.launch(String) from the SWT API.

(Alternatively, Java 6 introduced the Desktop class.)

Answer 3

You are looking for:

final IWebBrowser browser = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getBrowserSupport().createBrowser( ... );
browser.openURL(url);

Answer 4

Do you mean launch an external windows (IE, FireFox, ...) outside eclipse, or opening an internal " Browser " composite ?

Because on the internal side, the org.eclipse.help.ui.internal.browser.embedded.EmbeddedBrowser seems to be able to define any kind of major browser.

To open the default user's browser (as an internal or external window) is a preference defined in General/Web browser.