How to read unix standrad pipe output stream

Question

I want to write some code that will read data from a standard solaris pipe output stream. Please help.
For example
I cat a file in a unix shell
cat /etc/hosts
The output of this file can be piped to another program and I want to write a piece of code that reads that piped data and puts it into a textArea.
Thanks

Answer 1

Here ya go bro.................
This just checks if IO is coming in and if so prints it to the term, but
you get the idea.
There might be an better way but...........
import java.io.*;
class xxx
public static void main(String args[])
byte b[] = new byte[256];
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
try {
if(System.in.available() > 0) {
System.in.read(b);
baos.write(b,0,256);
System.out.println(baos.toString());
else
System.out.println("No pipe being layed");
catch(Throwable t){}