Kind of. Only thing is I want to be able to call it using any other programming
language. Basically, what I'm doing is creating a bunch of programs that, when
invoked, read a bunch of data from a database and format it and return the
string. However, I don't want to require that the person invoking the program be
using a Java based language. I'd like to be able to do it from JSP, PHP, ASP,
Perl, etc. I'd also love to be able to invoke it with Javascript or html, but
that may be asking a little too much.
I did some PHP programming a little ways back and I used a "curl" command to
send a bunch of data to a cgi file and wait for a delimited string (if you do
any ecommerce programming, you've probably had to do this when verifying the
credit card). What that CGI file is doing is kinda what I'm looking for. Is
there a way to make a servlet get triggered without using an http link (aka,
without opening it as a page in your browser) using any given programming
language?
-Dan
Gang Zhang wrote:
> You can use:
>
> java.lang.Process proc= java.lang.Runtime.exec("Yourcommand");
> //while loop to get process output:
> proc.getOutputStream().read(buf);
>
> Is that what you are talking about?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Lynn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 4:04 PM
> Subject: invoking program
>
> > I've got a task that I'm trying to accomplish and I think there's some
> chancew
> > that servlets might be a solution. Would anyone be able to point me in the
> > right direction?
> >
> > I need to have a program that I can send a request to (without importing
> the
> > code into another program) and have it return a string, much like you can
> do
> > with coding a CGI in C. It would need to run on our server even if called
> from
> > another. Any suggestions?
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> >
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