Exec application

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#1

Hi all,
I need to exec an external application from a CUBA screen. Is it possible?
If I use java code

Runtime rs = Runtime.getRuntime();
rs.exec([path]);

it works only during my test in develop mode. But if I deploy the WAR file and try to run it in Apache, it doesn’t work.
So I need to know if it is possible to run an application and, if so, what is the solution.
Thanks in advance.

#2

Hi,
Runtime.exec() should work fine even inside of Apache.
If you get errors, then those need to be investigated and solved.

I would also recommend to use GitHub - apache/commons-exec: Apache Commons Exec library, which is a wrapper around Runtime.exec and has more convenient API.

#3

Hi Alex,
thanks for your reply. Runtime doesn’t work and i don’t see any error or exception.
Simply the program run by the exec command doesn’t start (for example Notepad).
Anyway, even if it works, in this way i can run an application client side or server side?

#4

Server side of course.