Runing a external program

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David Brant - 05 Dec 2007 14:31 GMT

Hi

Does anyone know how to run an external program (i.e. a windows exe) from a
Java application (if this is possible) I'm writting a program that edits a
file for another program to use.

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Patricia Shanahan - 05 Dec 2007 14:35 GMT

> Hi
>
> Does anyone know how to run an external program (i.e. a windows exe) from a
> Java application (if this is possible) I'm writting a program that edits a
> file for another program to use.

See either ProcessBuilder, or, for simple cases, the Runtime exec methods.

Patricia

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