I am in the process of writing a cross platform Swing based application in which I want to utilize a file association which has been registered with the OS.
So iv got to the point where I can click on a file and my app loads, but what I need to know is how I can get my application to know where the file is that launched it and then query the contents.
Is there something further I have to do with the file association registration? Or can Java do this for me?
I'm not positive, but I'd expect that the name of the file you're processing by file click will end up in the arguments to your main() method. Have you tried/checked that?