Java Desktop Integration Components

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I’ve tried downloading the ‘Java Desktop Integration Components’ library with no success. How do I get it and any complete tutorials on it? Thanks.

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Some JDIC component are available in JDK 6. SystemTray, Launch Application and some other features

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What I wanted out of the JDIC is file type association, so that once you double-click on a file that your application uses, your application opens with the file’s path as a parameter to the main method, and also I wanted ‘application icon change’ from the default Java icon, so that files asociated with my application will have that same icon.

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To do this, u don’t need JDIC. Add the line below to your application’s main method. Associating a file extension with your application is done easily when building an installer for your application. Softwares like advanced installer will help associate a particular file extension with your application making it clickable and easily interpreted by your application
public static void main(String[] args){ ApplicationClassName clas = new ApplicationClassName(); if(args.length > 0) { loadFile(args[0]); //args[0] in loadFile method with return the string path to the clicked file // File file = new File(args[0]); //convert to file in your loadFile method } }

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Thanks, scooby for your reply. I don’t know why you checked this question, but thanks anyway. I thought I was already abandoned … I even forgot about ever solving the file-type association problem and thought that that was just one of the cons of coding in a platform independent language like Java.

Which installer do you recommend? I used IzPack to make the first installer of my program. I don’t think it offers the file-association or ‘application image-icon’ functionality.

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Advanced Installer

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I’ve been very busy working on a project in the last 3months+, that’s why I’ve not been responding on codenigeria as before. I’ll try to dedicate more time to it anyway…

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The features of advanced installer seem cool, but it appears one can only download a free 30 day trial. What can someone like me who can’t pay for such do?