Possible? output a string from a java program into a running program

Question

I'm not sure if it is plausible, but this is my dilemma. My java program searches for street names in a specific region, then outputs the nearest street. I would like to synch this up with Google Earth, and output the street name into it, so it would go ahead and be able to search it right away. Is this possible, or should I attempt some other route?

Answer 1

Check out my runCmd method. It gives an example of running another program and listening for the output. I built this to run javac and show the output in my custom editor.
You'll see some classes in here that are not standard java classes, in particular InfoFetcher. Don't worry, this is just a utility I wrote for convenient handling of inputstreams. You can handle the inputstreams without it, but if you really want it, it's probably posted somewhere in these forums.
        private void runCmd(String cmd) {
             try {
                  System.out.println("cmd: " + cmd);
                  Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
                  InputStream stream = p.getInputStream();
                  InputStream stream2 = p.getErrorStream();
                  InfoFetcher info = new InfoFetcher(stream, new byte[512], 500);
                  InputStreamListener l = new InputStreamListener() {
                       int currentLength = 0;
                       public void gotAll(InputStreamEvent ev) {}
                       public void gotMore(InputStreamEvent ev) {
                            String str = new String(ev.buffer, currentLength, ev.getBytesRetrieved());
                            currentLength = ev.getBytesRetrieved();
                            System.out.print(str);
                  info.addInputStreamListener(l);
                  Thread t = new Thread(info);
                  t.start();
                    InfoFetcher info2 = new InfoFetcher(stream2, new byte[512], 500);
                  InputStreamListener l2 = new InputStreamListener() {
                       int currentLength = 0;
                       public void gotAll(InputStreamEvent ev) {}
                       public void gotMore(InputStreamEvent ev) {
                            String str = new String(ev.buffer, currentLength, ev.getBytesRetrieved());
                            currentLength = ev.getBytesRetrieved();
                            System.out.print("(Error) " + str);
                  info2.addInputStreamListener(l2);
                  Thread t2 = new Thread(info2);
                  t2.start();
             catch (IOException iox) {
                  iox.printStackTrace();
        }