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    <p>Please forgive a question that has been addressed in some form or fashion previously. I have numerous test applications that run on various platforms from Windows 95, Windows XP, SUSE, RedHat, and other forms of *NIX. Currently, the mechanism has a native application that queries a database for some information then launches the test application to perform the test. This said program is a "launcher application" which I am trying to convert to a "HTML/Javascript Launcher Application". In addition, this "launcher application" needs to known when the test application is completed, then collect the test result then store the results in a database.</p> <p>I have read that launching an application (executable) from HTML is not permitted, but this is entirely true in the sense (if I understand correctly). From what I have read here on SO and other sites, I have the following possible solutions:</p> <ol> <li>Registering a unique protocol to an test application (<a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1205584/how-to-run-a-executable-file-from-a-web-page">SO Link</a>)</li> <li>Using Java to launch the application</li> <li>Adobe AIR or its opensource counter part, Titanium by Appcelerator</li> <li>Using WSH, though this will only work on Windows platforms</li> </ol> <p>What would be a good (or best ) approach to solution this problem? Ideally, I would like to just use HTML and Javascript, but this may not be possible? Thanks for any advice and any example/sample code would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>Mark</p>
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