[news.eclipse.platform.swt] How to open a document in a RCP view?

[aaghara@xxxxxxxxxx (Amit Aghara)]

We are trying to open (or view) a Word document inside an RCP view using 
SWT OLE APIs. While this approach works well on Windows but does not work 
on RH Linux since the OLE APIs are not available in the Linux SWT jars. 

What would the method to open a document (Word, PDF, etc.) inside an RCP 
view? I would prefer to use an API which simply opens the file using the 
default system editor for that particular mime type extension (since .DOC 
files do open on RH Linux as well). 

Does it help to convert the document into a standard format such as PDF?

Thanks.

- Amit.