Good points. I would NOT use interactive desktop at all. the program will die when you log out. don't do it! :)
-----Original Message----- From: Randy Layman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 9:21 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Invoking a process on the server from a servlet A few other thoughts of accomplishing the same thing: 1. You could enable Interact with desktop in the service that would allow it to open windows (but open huge security holes). Also if your site gets popular this will consume lots of memory when you can't close the windows as fast as they are opening. 2. Instead of opening a process you could send a message (via TCP) to an application that would catch it and display the message 3. Instead of opening a process you could update some internal list and then have a web page (access restricted if you want) that would display the results. Then you could do an auto-refresh header if you desired. 4. Make Tomcat SNMP enabled and then pass messages to the monitor interface. Then have your corporate management application listen for the events and display messages accordingly. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:34 AM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Invoking a process on the server from a servlet > > > Mark is correct. If you want you can have the servlet write > to a file every > time you get a visitor and then write a seperate program that > runs in your > tooltray. The other program should read the file and when a > new line is > written then popup what ever it is you want to see. > If it is in the your tooltray then the program will only > work when you > login. :) > the servlet will just write to a special log file that is > read by your new > little monitoring program. > goodluck, > Brian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wagoner, Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 9:46 AM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: Invoking a process on the server from a servlet > > > The problem is due to NT (or 2000) not allowing the Tomcat service to > interact with the desktop. If you bring up Task Manager, you > will probably > see your invoked process running, but it can't create window. > In fact, the > only way you will now be able to get rid of it will be to > kill it in Task > Manager. > > I don't know of any way around this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 10:42 AM > To: tomcat > Subject: Invoking a process on the server from a servlet > > > I have the following code in my servlet, where 'out' is the > HttpServletResponse object. > > Runtime t = Runtime.getRuntime(); > > try { > > Process proc = t.exec( "c:\\TaskInfo.exe" ); > > out.write(" invoked " ); > > } catch ( java.io.IOException ioe ) { > > out.write( ioe.toString() ); > > } > > What I'm getting is "invoked" in the browser window, but > nothing visibly > happens on my local machine( ie. server). I was hoping > TaskInfo would start > up. What I really want to do is open a file in notepad to > tell me a visitor > has just arrived. Am I barking up the wrong tree altogether. Should I > generate an event and listen for it in another app running as > a listener in > the background, or is there just no way of invoking a process > on localhost > from a servlet. > > Thanks. > > If this is the wrong place to be asking these questions, > please let me know. > > -- > cf > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
