execute external command / application from java
- by IttayD
I'm looking for a package to support reliably executing external processes from Java. My criteria:
Abstract over OS. So if I want to run 'foo', it will look for 'foo.bat', 'foo.exe' under windows and 'foo' under other OSs (or, have a way of passing a map of os-command)
Being able to execute Java classes by simply giving the class name and arguments (so the package locates the java command, copies jvm flags and then executes)
Process stdout and stderr properly
Watchdog / Monitoring capabilities
I've looked at commons-exec but it looks like it answers only 3 & 4. Ant has support for execution but looks like an overkill to use it for this purpose only.