How to call window installer from Java Application - java

We work on the Java application .Our the application we need to call some service which is a window installer and that when run from the command prompt accept the input file and gives the result as an output file.
Java application is on Linux and window service is on window so my question is that how can i call this window service from my java code.
I thought of writing some kind of a scheduler but how will i make sure that the scheduler runs only when the input file gets copied on the Window env from the Linux m/c and how will i get back the result that the installer has run the programme and generated the output file.
Please help in suggesting some idea.

Use ProcessBuilder to execute the external program of installer.

Maybe this my question can help you with that, and please read before that When Runtime.exec() won't

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I'm trying to replicate the behavior of Linux where we create an application launcher using Alacarte providing it the command and file name and Icon using batch
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The batch file is in the same directory as the java application.
The Batch contains the command as:
java -javaagent:app1.jar -jar app2.jar
Which does the job but It keeps CMD running in the background which during work I always accidentally close it which turns out closing the java app.
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Java - System.out.println() viewable from application?

I have a Java application that runs great :) While uploading files, it uses the standard output to show progress : "System.out.println(...);".
When I run it in Eclipse, well it works perfectly, but when I run the JAR file, I don't see any console/terminal showing up and printing what I print through "System.out.println(...),".
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Open terminal and run application as java -cp yourjar.jar YouMain or java -jar yourjar.jar if you jar is runnable.
I believe that you do not see output because you are running your application using javaw - the special windows-only variation of JVM that does not have STDOUT at all. If you want to click your application and see output map *.jar file to be opened using java instead of javaw. Alternatively write bat file that runs your application. In this case you will see console.
Use java instead of javaw to launch your application. Double-clicking on a jar executes it with javaw. Instead, open a command line window and type
java -jar thePathOfTheJarFile.jar
If you want to have something double-clickable, then write a shell script containing this command, and double-click the shell script instead of the jar.

How to Run Commands through a already running Java?

I was wondering if it was possible to execute commands from PHP to a Java prompt which is already running?
I have tried the solution listed here:
How to run a shell command through PHP code?
and this provided no functionality
Let me explain
The java is running on one screen of the linux server
sudo apt-get install screen
and running the .jar file through the command line.
I am then running a webserver, which will have an admin accessibility to restricted areas, which will contain scrips to run specific commands through that already running .jar file?
You can implement some kind of IPC. The java file listens to a port and receives the commands. Or you can write the commands in a specific file which the java programm reads. I think under linux you can also use shared memory: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.shmop.php
It is possible by sending the command to the screen session. I used this for a minecraft server once.
screen -S <sessionname> -X stuff "<command>\r"
This would (IIRC) provide the same output as if you where inside the screen, typed the command and pressed enter.
I hope this was what you wanted.

Running a JAVA program as a scheduled task

I am trying to run a simple JAVA program once per day on a Windows 7 machine.
My code runs fine inside NetBeans. If I do a clean and build it suggests this:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0/bin/java -jar "C:\Users\User1\Documents\NetBeansProjects\Facebook\dist\Facebook.jar"
This does not work from the DOS prompt of course because of the space between program and files so I do this:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0/bin/java -jar "C:\Users\User1\Documents\NetBeansProjects\Facebook\dist\Facebook.jar" -jar "C:\Users\User1\Documents\NetBeansProjects\Facebook\dist\Facebook.jar"
This works from the DOS prompt.
I now create a task in Windows Scheduler to run:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0/bin/java
with arguments:
-jar "C:\Users\User1\Documents\NetBeansProjects\Facebook\dist\Facebook.jar"
When I then run it, all I see is a DOS box flashing up for a second. I expect the code to take about 30 secs to run. The code should persist data to a database and no updates happen.
The code also uses java.util.logging so I should see log entries and I don't.
I strongly suspect that I am not running the JAVA command properly or that there's a bad classpath issue that it present when running via Scheduler that isn't there when running from the DOS prompt.
Help would be appreciated. If you've seen this before and can sort it that would be great. If you can tell me how to get a meaningful error trace from Scheduler than that would also be really helpful.
Thanks!
I Think that you could create a simple batch script that will launch your program in this way :
#echo off
REM Eventually change directory to the program directory
cd C:\Users\User1\Documents\NetBeansProjects\Facebook\dist\
REM run the program
"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin\java.exe" -jar "C:\Users\User1\Documents\NetBeansProjects\Facebook\dist\Facebook.jar"
Copy it into the notepad and save as java_script.cmd and then schedule this script instead of the program directly.
I solved it after changing all fonts' references to "SansSerif"
I was using Jasper Reports inside Java to create a PDF file. It was working fine when I double click the batch file or Scheduler with Windows Server 2003 but not working with the Scheduler of 2008.
I tried many different things nothing worked so I though Could it be that Windows Server 2008 is blocking the access?.
Now is working perfect. So, if you are having problems check the references to anything you are using.
The scheduler will run under a different user unless you specify what user to run as. If it isn't running as your user then it won't be able to write to your directories.
The real problem to the original question is a java installation issue on Microsoft systems. Java jre installs into Program Files\java. The executable (java.exe) is only installed in that java\bin directory. Running from the command line, the os looks in the proper location for the java.exe. Running from other MS tools (such as VBA Excel or in this case TaskScheduler), it does not!
You can see that TaskScheduler is looking in the wrong place by viewing the tasks history in the TaskScheduler tool. Double click on some of the history events and one will list the action and return code. The action will show that the TaskScheduler is trying to run
"C:\Windows\system32\java.EXE"
So, copy java.exe from the java\bin directory into the place where the scheduler is looking, and now it will work.
Or update your task and provide the full path to java.exe.
You can also update the environment system path to look for java in the java\bin directory, but that has to apply to all users and sometimes this is faulty as well.

closing a command line window in Java

I have created a small Java application in which there is some code that executes a batch file. The execution of the batch file leads to the command line window to be opened and to display some output messages. I would like to know if there is some way in Java to call this command line window to be closed from within the program...Thanks!
the command window should close automatically when the batch file completes.
and to run a batch file in background/invisibly, check other questions
Start java by using javaw or javaw.exe.
java (java.exe) runs with an associated console window,
javaw (javaw.exe) is the same but without the console window.
see the documentation for the java command.
On Windows also use start to invoke another shell
start javaw ClassName
I'm not sure for Linux&Co. Try using an & after the command to run it in the background
javaw ClassName &
The other way, closing the window from a batch started by Java:
I don't believe that is possible directly from within Java. You can only close the batch file by itself.
Is hard to help without knowing what that batch file is doing. You may try using the start command on windows or the & in Linux to run the process in the background (start has an option to open the window minimized [/MIN] or in the background [/B]).
Or try some hack like using AutoHotKey or some system functionality (some WinAPI-DLL or equivalent in other systems).
As an addition to NimChimpsky's answer:
If you run a batch file in Windows, Windows will automatically open a command window for the batch file, in case the batch file wants to print output or prompt for input. This also applies if you launch the bat file from a Java process.
Unfortunately, Windows itself apparently provides no way to launch a batch file without such a window. To avoid the window, you will have to run the batch file via some helper program. There are several available; google for "run bat no window" to find some.
If you just want the window to go away after the batch file terminates: That should happen automatically. If it does not, some program launched by the batch file is still running.
start /b [bat file name]

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