I am executing Java class from inside my application.
proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("java Test");
How can I recognize whether Test executed successfully or not (i.e. no exceptions)?
Redirecting output / error:
proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {
"java",
mclass,
">NUL 2>test.txt"
});
From cmd:
java Main >NUL 2>test.txt
process.waitFor();
int exitCode = process.exitValue();
if(exitCode == 0) { // success }
else { // failed }
This works, if the Test is designed properly and returns appropriate exit codes (generally, >0 if something went wrong).
If you want to get Tests output/error message to determine what was wrong, you should get proc.getInputStream() (this returns the output stream of the child process), proc.getErrorStream() and read from the input streams in separated threads.
Note that the child process will get blocked if it writes to error/output stream and there are no readers. So reading error/output streams of the process is useful in any cases.
Another option to avoid child blocking is to redirect its error/output to a file and/or to /dev/null ('NUL' for windows):
Runtime.exec("java Test >/dev/null 2>&1");
Runtime.exec("java Test >/dev/null 2>erroroutput");
cmd, it works fine. Whereas when I use exec or process builder, my application just stops and nothing happens, so I have to terminate it. Any advice?
cmd or exec.NIL still does not work for me, I've decided to put error & output streams to separate threads. Thanks for your help.exitCode() method in Process class. Only exitValue().Redirection is done by the shell processor, not by Runtime.exec() (at least not on Windows).
You need to execute your command by cmd.exe:
String command = "cmd /c java -classpath D:\\dev\\temp\\ Main >NUL 2>test.txt";
proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
You can call proc.waitFor() to return an integer value. But you have to make sure that all output of the program is handled correctly (e.g. use the proc.getInputStream() method).
Have you tried proc.exitValue() ?
Errr... what? Do it this way:
int response = (int)(getClass().getClassLoader().findClass("Test").
getMethod("someStaticMethod", new String[]{}).
invoke(null, new Object[]{}));
This invokes the static method "int someStaticMethod()" of the class "Test" which gets loaded dynamically.
Test.sameStaticMethod()?
You may use ProcessBuilder class of java to execute these files.
