How to open user system preferred editor for given file?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to open the system preferred editor for a given file.

Say, we have a file manager, written in Java. User goes to folder and sees the li

Answer 1

Seems that if you can't use java.awt.Desktop you have to distinguish between the OSes: Windows:

RUNDLL32.EXE SHELL32.DLL,OpenAs_RunDLL 

Linux:

edit 

Mac:

open 

HTH. Obviously, that is not very portable...