[UIMA-518] improve browser utilities to configured the used browser in UIMA

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.3
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Michael Baessler
• Reporter: Michael Baessler
• Created: 30/Jul/07 11:16
• Updated: 30/May/08 06:35
• Resolved: 30/May/08 06:34

Description

The annotation viewer has the possibility to use the browser to show the annotation results. By default on Linux the "mozilla" browser is used.
On "old" Linux systems, "mozilla" is correct to call, but I think on newer Linux systems, "mozilla" never works

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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2006/101106-portland-project.html describes
xdg-utils, and says Fedora, OpenSUSE, and Debian have already committed to installing the utilities.
One utility enables visiting a Web page in the user's chosen browser.
On Debian, this capability is available via the command "x-www-browser", which launches the user's graphical browser of choice.
OSDL's xdg-utils extends the availability across distributions.
See http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ for details on xdg-utils. It is licensed under the MIT license, and
the MIT/X11 license is listed as category "A" (allowed) on Cliff's 3rd party page.