Run Outlook Express automaticaly

[ptc-3853482]

Hello,

I have one request from customer: when he receives activity (from workflow) asking him to send email to someone he wants for Outlook Express to be opened automaticaly so he could send email. I've added expression robot in workflow with following lines:

Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();

String path1="cmd /c start outlook";

Process p = r.exec(path1);

Problem is the following: Outlook Express does open but on a server, not a local users machine. Does someone have idea how to run OE on local machine?

Thanks

[jessh]

If you want Java to directly do something on the client (launch a process in this case), then that Java itself should be executing on the client. In this case, this means the Java should be an applet (or Java Web Start application, but an applet is simpler here).

If you can figure out an indirect way to accomplish what you want, e.g. a mailto link, then you can avoid running Java on the client, but you certainly can't run Java on the server, tell it to launch a process and expect process to laucnh on the server.