Hello All, Can a servlet run an EXE which is located on another machine.
Raghavendra Holla
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Hi, What you have to do with exe? Is it any third party software? Objective of Java to make it poratble across the plaforms.. i.e. "Write once .. Run anywhere..." However still you want to use.. use following method, Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\win\system\notepad.exe");
Try to avoid using above command. look into java.lang package for further information. regards, holla.
Bharatesh H Kakamari
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You cannot execute a file on a remote machine (Machine 1) by a servlet on machine 2.
Frank Carver
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However, a servlet can call an executable program in the same way as any other Java code. You need the Runtime.exec() method. Look it up in your API documentation.
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