Question

import java.io.*;

public class Auto {

    /**
     * @param args
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        try {
            Runtime.getRuntime().exec("javac C:/HelloWorld.java");
            Runtime.getRuntime().exec("java C:/HelloWorld > C:/out.txt");
            System.out.println("END");

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

This program is able to compile the ‘HelloWorld.java’ file, but not execute it(HelloWorld).
Could anyone please suggest me how to make it work?
Thanks in Advance! 🙂
Also, if the output could be able to be taken in another text file say ‘output.txt’.

Answer 1

When your run the java program, you must be in your project root directory, and run java package.to.ClassWhichContainsMainMethod

Runtime.getRuntime().exec() will give you a Process which contains an OutputStream and an InpuStream to the executed application.

You can redirect the InputStream content to your log file.

In your case I would use this exec : public Process exec(String command, String[] envp, File dir) like this :

exec("java HelloWorld", null, new File("C:/"));

To copy data from the inputStream to the file (code stolen on this post) :

public runningMethod(){
    Process p = exec("java HelloWorld", null, new File("C:/"));
    pipe(p.getInputStream(), new FileOutputStream("C:/test.txt"));
}

public void pipe(InputStream in, OutputStream out) {
    byte[] buffer = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE];
    int writtenBytes;
    while((writtenBytes = in.read(buf)) >= 0) {
        out.write(buf, 0, writtenBytes);
    }
}