How to launch a file protocol URL with an anchor from Java?

Question

From a Java program, I need to launch the default browser on a local HTML file, pointed to an anchor inside the file. In Java SE 6, the java.awt.Desktop.browse method will

Answer 1

I've done some investigation on this item here - note that opening cmd and typing start file:///c:/temp/test.html#anchor also doesn't work.

I think the only thing that actually works is to call a browser manually (or use a third-party tool that does this).

On Windows, you always have Internet Explorer, so you could call Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe start iexplore " + myURL) if you really don't want to find iexplore.exe yourself - but this doesn't always work either.