not able get a string output

hi friends.here out is the response object .i am trying to return a string from the command line but i am getting the output as an object that is @some numbers .actually i m trying to read this string from the command line and returning it to the browser.

try
{

String line;
// String path="/home/muzammil/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/work/Catalina/localhost/remote_compile/"+filen[0];
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec
("java -classpath /home/muzammil/apache-tomcat-6.0.18/work/Catalina/localhost/remote_compile/" +filen[0]);
BufferedReader input =
new BufferedReader
(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
line=input.readLine();
while (line != null)
{
out.println("<html>");
out.println("<body>");
out.println("Output is:" +line );

out.println("</body></html>");

out.close();
}

}
catch (Exception err)
{
err.printStackTrace();
}

If that code worked it would hang in the while loop since you never read the next line.

Furthermore you have set yourself up for mysterious bugs by exec() ing without handling the stderr character stream.

Bill

William Brogden wrote:If that code worked it would hang in the while loop since you never read the next line.

Furthermore you have set yourself up for mysterious bugs by exec() ing without handling the stderr character stream.

Bill

so how is it that it is going to work .can you give me an example

Wait a minute... you're trying to read from a command line within a servlet?

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yes i m trying to invoke arguments returned from command line within the servlet ...

Moving to servlets forum, in that case. And don't say anything is urgent.

Where is filen[0] coming from? Are you really trying to read the Tomcat start command line?

The JavaDocs for Process explain about handling the stdErr and stdOut streams from an exec().

I am suspecting a deep misunderstanding about how servlets and servlet containers work, read up on servlet life cycles.

Bill

I got the solution to that I used the name of static class instead of filen[0] n got the output.
changed it to dynamic using filen[0].toString().
and nw it is working perfectly

muusa muzammil wrote:I got the solution to that I used the name of static class instead of filen[0] n got the output.
and nw it is working perfectly

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