Question about Runtime.exec

Question

Rob,
Thanks for your help.
I asked a question about a weird Exception on Nov 14, and you told me that I am
using Runtime.exec to start an external process, and that process is crashing.
I am a green-hand on Weblogic, and I am trying to enhancing a project developped
by another person, so I am not familiar with some concepts yet.
Could you please give me some simple explanation about Runtime.exec and external
process?
I found two methods that uses "Runtime" from two classes as following, could you
help me to see whether or not there is something wrong with the usage of Runtime?
Thank you very much.
private int runShellCommand(String command) {
int exitVal = -1;
try {
File runDir = new File(runDirectory);
String[] env = new String[0];
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
               double start = System.currentTimeMillis();
Process proc = rt.exec(command, env, runDir);
// Capture output in separate thread
ThreadedStreamReader error = new ThreadedStreamReader(proc.getErrorStream(),
"ERROR");
ThreadedStreamReader output = new ThreadedStreamReader(proc.getInputStream(),
"OUTPUT");
error.start();
output.start();
exitVal = proc.waitFor();
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
     double runtime = (System.currentTimeMillis() - start) / 1000.0;
     logger.info("run " + runId + " " + command + " finished in " + runtime
+ " seconds");
} catch (IOException e) {
logger.fatal("DOE-2 failed \n" + e.getMessage());
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return exitVal;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception, InterruptedException
final Doe2MessageServer server = new Doe2MessageServer();
while(!connected) {
Thread.sleep(1000);
logger.info("Attempting to start JMS service ...");
               try {
          server.init();
               } catch (Exception ex) {
// shutdown hook to close JMS connection
Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(
new Thread() {
public void run() {
server.finalize();
server.receiveMessage();

Answer 1

Runtime.exec is a J2SE API. It's not really specific to WLS.
You can read about it here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html
It looks like you are starting a JMS Server in a separate process and
that process is crashing.
(You could of course just use WLS's JMS Server instead :>)
-- Rob
Iris Qu wrote:
Rob,
Thanks for your help.
I asked a question about a weird Exception on Nov 14, and you told me that I am
using Runtime.exec to start an external process, and that process is crashing.
I am a green-hand on Weblogic, and I am trying to enhancing a project developped
by another person, so I am not familiar with some concepts yet.
Could you please give me some simple explanation about Runtime.exec and external
process?
I found two methods that uses "Runtime" from two classes as following, could you
help me to see whether or not there is something wrong with the usage of Runtime?
Thank you very much.
private int runShellCommand(String command) {
int exitVal = -1;
try {
File runDir = new File(runDirectory);
String[] env = new String[0];
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
               double start = System.currentTimeMillis();
Process proc = rt.exec(command, env, runDir);
// Capture output in separate thread
ThreadedStreamReader error = new ThreadedStreamReader(proc.getErrorStream(),
"ERROR");
ThreadedStreamReader output = new ThreadedStreamReader(proc.getInputStream(),
"OUTPUT");
error.start();
output.start();
exitVal = proc.waitFor();
if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
     double runtime = (System.currentTimeMillis() - start) / 1000.0;
     logger.info("run " + runId + " " + command + " finished in " + runtime
+ " seconds");
} catch (IOException e) {
logger.fatal("DOE-2 failed \n" + e.getMessage());
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return exitVal;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception, InterruptedException
final Doe2MessageServer server = new Doe2MessageServer();
while(!connected) {
Thread.sleep(1000);
logger.info("Attempting to start JMS service ...");
               try {
          server.init();
               } catch (Exception ex) {
// shutdown hook to close JMS connection
Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(
new Thread() {
public void run() {
server.finalize();
server.receiveMessage();