Java/OS File Handling

[Revenna]

I've just started building graphical applications with Java in the last month and I've been trying all sorts of interesting things. My latest project is a very simple, lightweight text editor(see attached).
What I'd like to do, is to be able to click on a text file in the operating system's shell, and have my little text editor open it. Is there a way to handle things like that in Java?

[Eranga]

Basically what OS does is associate the extension with relevant applications. Simply that's what we do in Windows, by changing the Open with on it's properties.

[dswastik]

As said above it's a os specific operation, but probably this can be done from java too as per this article

Understanding JDIC File-Type Associations

however this is new for me too.

[Eranga]

Yeah, as far as I've deal with those things in few times, it's not an easy task. Specially comes to the UNIX environment.