Non-GUI Forte

Question

"Keith Patterson" <[email protected]> wrote:
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... I would like to create several 'batch' Forte programs that perform
a select all from our tables at random intervals during our testing.
Has anyone done this sort of thing?? I'm not even sure how to start
building an app that I don't want any output from and any assistance
would be sincerely appreciated. You're going to be embarassed at how easy it is. At least, I was! ;-)
Assuming that you want is to kick a couple batch, detached, daemon, or
whatever processes to bang on your database, what you need to do is:
* Create a new project. Give this project, as contributors, all the
projects needed to get the functionality you want to test.
* In this new project, create a NON-GUI object with a method that
actually performs the test you want. Make this the initial
object/method for the project.
* Make distribution on this project.
* Run your project, applying the -fcons, -fnw, and/or -fterm qualifiers
as necessary.
If you want to force the action through the same Forte service objects
(rather than just copies of them), the above WILL NOT do what you want.
In theory you can get that with the above setup by putting the SOs in a
"reference partition" (I believe that's the term), but I have no actual
experience at that.
Alternatively, you could simply put a "test" button somewhere in your
app, that creates a new instance of the test object, and does a "start
task" on the relevant method. This is not, strictly speaking, a "batch"
run, but you also don't have to make distribution to do it.
Tom Wyant
E. I. DuPont de Nemours
Richmond, VA USA

Answer 1

If you upgrade to 1.5 it's a little easier, for instance reading a word and then an integer is this simple:    Scanner s=Scanner.create(System.in);
    String param= s.next();
    int value=s.nextInt();For further information see
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/Scanner.html
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/j2se15/