Thanks to ALL who contributed to helping me with this!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:54 PM
Subject: RE: Database backups initiated from Tomcat


> But ?????? can't you do something like this????
> 
> 
> public static final void openFileAndExecuteAssociatedApplication(String 
> fullPathAndFileName){ 
> try { 
> Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c start 
> "+fullPathAndFileName); 
> p.waitFor(); 
> } catch (Throwable ex) { 
> ex.printStackTrace(); 
> } 
> }
> 
> I do agree that some of this Runtime stuff is dangerous. I'm just trying
> to help, but I don't want to waste time, so this is my last post
> regarding this topic. If anyone has a "proven" solution please share and
> leave the corrections to God!
> 
> Tom Kochanowicz
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Souther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 3:37 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Database backups initiated from Tomcat
> 
> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 04:22 pm, Tom K wrote:
> > I'm not sure either, but you could try it in a sync block and see if
> it
> > works and let us know ;-)
> 
> Yoav Shapira answered that.  (getRuntime().exec is non-blocking)
> Read his reply for the details.
> 
> 
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