The browser launcher sample program demonstrates how to create a GUI task extension that is browser-based that can be launched from the IBM Director Console. Adding a console task extension is described in Creating console task extensions and is just one of the three aspects outlined in Creating IBM Director tasks. Configuring and launching a browser from within IBM Director is described in Launching a browser from IBM Director.
IBM Director requires that the TWGTaskFrame class be extended in order to create a GUI task frame that can be launched from the IBM Director Console. IBM Director also provides the BrowserLauncher class to allow applications to launch a browser on their system based on information previously defined in a properties file. The browser launcher sample uses both classes to demonstrate how your organization can create its own browser-based GUI tasks.
This sample creates a GUI task that launches a previously specified browser using the information provided at the time of invocation. The sample code consists of Java source for the GUI task and extensions.