How to run command-line or execute external application from Java

submited by krishnas on Mon Sep 24th, 2007

Have you ever confront a situation that you need to execute external programs while developing a Java application? For instance, you are developing a Java application and need to execute external application(another executable program) in the middle of the program or you may need to execute some commands such as listing directory command: dir (in windows) or ls (in Unix) while developing the program.

Topic: java