Exception at debug: "Could not find executable for file extension = htm"

[Former Member]

When launching debug for an J2EE Application in the Developer Studio occurs the following popup:

"<i>Exception occured during launch. Reason:

Could not find executable for file extension = htm</i>"

Debugging Web-Dynpro-Applications works without problems.

Does anybody know how to help this?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

This is not a sap problem, it is a windows problem.

I run windows XP also. Every once a while, I will see this "Could not find executable for file extension = htm" error when trying to debug a J2EE/Dympro application. It just means somehow window suddenly got confused about file association for htm/html extensions. you just need to delete the file associations for htm/html, and let window re-associate htm/html with IE. Nothing big, but very annoying. Never seen this kind of crap in LINUX.

BTW, you run windows explorer, then tools->folder options->file types, and look for htm and html to delete.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Good to know that it is a windows problem!

But I couldn't solve it this way. Maybe the reason is, that Windows didn't allow to delete the file association for the extension ".html". To delete the association for ".htm" was possible, and Windows re-associated it then.

BTW, I also deleted the file associations in NWDS/eclipse.

But the Problem persists.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

j Sun,

I understand what you're saying. Unless I'm mistaken, though, I don't believe that is the issue in this case.

If it were a windows issue, then I would not be able to 'launch' an html file into Internet Explorer by double-clicking on it in Windows Explorer.