A prompt command!

[Bruno Frascino]

Hi there,
How to "call" a command like "net send host_name message" from a java application?!
Which class i must use?!
Thanks!

[Peter Kristensson]

Hi.
Look at the java.lang.Runtime class, more specifically the exec methods.
/Peter

[Bruno Frascino]

Thanks Peter!!

It's simple... let me show for the others buddies:

 
import java.io.IOException;
import java.lang.NullPointerException;
import java.lang.Runtime;
public class Tst{
  public static void main(String args[]){
    try{
      Runtime.getRuntime().exec("[B]Prompt_Command_like_ipconfig[/B]");
    }
      catch(IOException io){
        System.out.println(io.getMessage());
    }
      catch(NullPointerException np){
System.out.println(np.getMessage());
    }
  }
} 

[Peter Chase]

Originally posted by BJack:
It's simple... let me show for the others buddies:

There is no need to catch NullPointerException here. I presume that its inclusion was prompted by the JDK javadoc, but careful reading of that javadoc reveals that NullPointerException cannot occur in the example, because exec() is being passed a literal String, which cannot be null. In fact, it is very rarely appropriate to catch NullPointerException, because it indicates a programming error, rather than a user error or system fault.
Second, and much more subtle, there are problems with Runtime.exec() for any command that might produce a significant amount of output on standard output or standard error streams. If the buffers for these streams fill up, the process that has been run with exec() will hang forever. Therefore, you often need to ensure that these buffers are drained, while the process is running; you may need additional thread(s) to do this. It's a real pain, but Sun refuses to acknowledge that it's a problem.

[Dmitry Melnik]

This piece of code handles the console output generated by the executed command, and waits for it to complete
// ===========
Process p;
try {
p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream ()));
String s;
while ((s = br.readLine ())!= null){
System.out.println (s);
}
p.waitFor();
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(
"Failed to execute the script (" + cmd + ") :\n" + ex.getMessage());
}

[Cindy Glass]

BJack,
Please change your name to be compliant with JavaRanch's naming policy. It should not be obviously fictitious.
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Thanks,
Cindy