[Biojava-l] Running apps with Java

[David Huen]

On Monday 11 Aug 2003 3:03 pm, Francois Pepin wrote:
> I have code that did that, but it wasn't reliable enough to use like
> that. For unknown reasons, there are programs that I couldn't call at
> all.
>
> The only reliable method that I found was to write a one-liner shell
> script to be executed by sh, but this is an ugly, ugly hack.
>
> The grabbing of stdin and stdout wasn't working as advertised either.
>
> This is with Linux. I don't know about Windows, but I'm sure I'm not the
> only one who needs to call Linux apps.
>
> Maybe like Mark said it got more reliable with 1.4.
>
> Personally I'd much rather use a system like that than to have to depend
> on Perl or Python to do it.
>
Would something hybrid like Jython be useful in this context?  Perhaps they 
might have encountered and solved some of these problems.

Regards,
dh