[Biojava-l] Re: Running apps with Java

[Francois Pepin]

I'll take care of combining the two, basically adding the ExecRunner
functionality to ProcessTools.

Thomas, how tested is ProcessTools? Is it something that you just wrote
up or is it code that's been found to work flawlessly on different kind
of applications?

Francois.

On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 12:41, Thomas Down wrote:
> Once upon a time, Francois Pepin wrote:
> > I've added it to the cvs as org.biojava.utils.ExecRunner. It make take a
> > little while to be replicated in the anonymous cvs.
> 
> Sorry, our two solutions seem to have crossed in cyberspace :-(.
> 
> As far as I can tell, ExecRunner has:
> 
>     - Use of Windows cmd.com to sort out PATH issues.
>     - Timeouts.
>     - More comprehensive public API.
> 
> ProcessTools has:
> 
>     - Lower level I/O pumps which I think will be more reliable.
>     - The ability to send data to the child process's standard
>       input.
> 
> Perhaps we can usefully synthesize the two.
> 
>     Thomas.
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