The Java Desktop Integration Components (JDIC) project provides components which give

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applications the same access to

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services as native applications. For example, a Java application running on one user's desktop can open a web page using that user's default

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(e.g.

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), but the same Java application running on a different user's desktop would open the page in

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(the second user's default browser). Initially the project supports features such as embedding the native HTML browser, programmatically opening the native mail client, using registered file-type viewers, and packaging JNLP applications as RPM, SVR4, and MSI installer packages. As a bonus, an SDK for developing platform-independent

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s is included. Most of the features provided by JDIC were incorporated into the

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starting with version 1.6. As a result, the development of the project has come to an end.

Components

The

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JDIC package, which files should allow the user to work, includes:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jdic/ Integrate native OS features in your desktop applications with JDIC *jdic.jar: JAR file which contains all the Java classes needed for development. It must be in the classpath of the user for compilation. *jdic.dll and tray.dll: On

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installations, these files need to be into the directory where this operating system is installed (normally, C:\Windows). They contain the "bridge" methods between the jdic.jar Java methods and the native OS methods. *libjdic.so and libtray.so: On Solaris and

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operating systems, these two files must go into the LD_LIBRARY_PATH folder.

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The JDIC project home on java.net

Understanding JDIC File-Type Associations

Integrate native OS features in your desktop applications with JDIC
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