code: public static boolean showDocument(URL url)
  	{
  		if ( url != null ){
  			boolean success = JNLPProxy.showDocument(url);
  			if ( ! success)
  				logger.info("could not open URL "+url+" in browser. check your config or browser version.");
  		return success;
  
  		}
  		else
  			return false;
  	}
docs: open a URL in the browser that was used to launch SPICE
  
  @param url URL to be opened
  @return true if this was successfull