I am working on a simple java program. It simply compiles and executes another java program. I am using Runtime.exec() function to compile and run. There is no problem with compilation. but when it runs, if the second program needs an input to read from keyboard, I can't give it from the master process. I used getOutputStream() function. but it couldn't help. I will provide my code.
public class sam {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("javac sam2.java");
Process p2 = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("java sam2");
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(p2.getInputStream()));
OutputStream out = p.getOutputStream();
String line = null;
line = in.readLine();
System.out.println(line);
input=input+"\n";
out.write(input.getBytes());
p.wait(10000);
out.flush();
}catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
This is my master program(sam.java).
The following is the code of sam2.java
public class sam2 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String str;
System.out.println("Enter the number..\n");
str = br.readLine();
System.out.println(Integer.parseInt(str));
}
}
There is no problem, if my second program has only printing statements. But the problem arises when I have to read something from the other.
It is a bit strange but you can run the second program without forking it. Just calling the main method in it. So forget the runtime section and do this:
sam2.main(new String[0]);
Of course this way you must compile sam2 at compile time