Desktop.edit(File file) has the following syntax.
public void edit(File file) throws IOException
In the following code shows how to use Desktop.edit(File file) method.
import java.awt.Desktop; import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; /* w w w.j a va2 s .co m*/ public class Main { public static void main(String[] a) { try { Desktop desktop = null; if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) { desktop = Desktop.getDesktop(); } desktop.edit(new File("c:\\a.txt")); } catch (IOException ioe) { ioe.printStackTrace(); } } }