title: Launching a browser window from Java WebStart (JNLP) in Java 6u13+
body: <p>There is a bug in Java 6u13 and 6u14. 
  <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6835450" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6835450</a></p>
  
  <p>Simply put, the following code is supposed to open a browser window, but because of a bug in the framework, it stopped working in Java 1.6 update 13. Nothing opens anymore. There was a similar bug for Java applets (that was fixed in update 14), but this one still exists in update 14 for Java WebStart/JNLP. </p>
  
  <pre><code>getAppletContext().showDocument(new URL("http://www.sun.com"),"_blank");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Do you know of any workarounds? </p>