Re: browsing htm page inside JAR file

From:
Mike <mikes3959@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 6 Sep 2008 19:54:42 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<aa76e2e7-6db2-40ac-a909-272e3170ade4@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com>
Yes, I agree it is possible with JEditorPane. I thought John was
referring to using the actual browser. Sorry for the confusion.

On Sep 6, 9:18 pm, Arne Vajh=F8j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Mike wrote:

On Sep 6, 6:37 pm, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:

In article <48c2de71$0$90273$14726...@news.sunsite.dk>,
 Arne Vajh=F8j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Mike wrote:

I'm trying to access an =B3html=B2 page inside a JAR file. Then, I w=

ant to

display it using Java's Desktop.getDesktop().browse (URI). In oth=

er

words, I want to display it using the user's default browser. I was
able to get an URL a(jar:file...) and then convert it to an URI but
Java won't launch and open the default browser (Internet Explore
specifically) with the URI. Can someone show me Java code doing this=

?

A classloader can load content from inside a jar file.
A standard browser can not.
So it is not possible. You need to extract the file first.

Alternatively: you can display the html from the jar in a JTextPane or


OK. See my next comment.

JEditorPane; or you can read an absolute, browsable URL string from th=

e

jar, construct the corresponding URI, and browse that.


That's the part that doesn't work. Can you show me Java code that does
that. I don't think is possible.


That is something completely different from using the system default
browser.

It is possible.

The following works.

C:\>jar tvf showhtml.jar
     57 Sat Sep 06 21:16:18 EDT 2008 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
     49 Sat Sep 06 20:58:26 EDT 2008 september/text.html
    603 Sat Sep 06 21:15:48 EDT 2008 september/ShowHtml$1.class
   2250 Sat Sep 06 21:15:48 EDT 2008 september/ShowHtml.class

package september;

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class ShowHtml extends JFrame {
     private static String load(InputStream is) throws IOException =

{

         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("");
         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStre=

amReader(is));

         String line;
         while((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
             sb.append(line);
             sb.append(' ');
         }
         return sb.toString();
     }
     private JEditorPane html;
     public ShowHtml() {
         setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
         getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
         html = new JEditorPane();
         html.setContentType("text/html");
         try {

html.setText(load(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/september/text.html"))=

);

         } catch(IOException ex) {
             html.setText("**** Can not find HTML resource =

****");

         }
         getContentPane().add(html, BorderLayout.CENTER);
         pack();
     }
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JFrame f = new ShowHtml();
                 f.setVisible(true);
             }
         });
     }

}

Arne

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