I found this java source which will call a windows batch file from
java
this works fine when I am executing this from java , however I want
to call this from oracle

when I call the class from oracle sql plus it hangs
any ideas would be of help


I am attaching the java code here

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import java.io.*;
/** Executes the String arguments, displays the commands being
executed, and displays
* any results.
*/
public class RuntimeDemo{
/** Instantiates a class and runs the commands passed in the aguments.
*/

public static void runThis(String args){

RuntimeDemo demo = new RuntimeDemo();
demo.runCommand(args);

}
/** Runs the commands in a process and displays the results.
*/
public void runCommand(String args){
int number = 1;
try{
int number = args.length;
try{
String[] commands;
String operatingsystem =
System.getProperty("os.name");
if
(operatingsystem.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows") > 0){
commands = new String[number + 2];
commands[0] = "command.com"; //for Windows 95, 98, ME. etc.
if
(operatingsystem.toLowerCase().indexOf("nt") > 0){
commands[0] = "cmd.exe"; //for Windows NT
}
commands[1] = "/c";
for (int i = 0; i < number;i++){
commands[i+2] = args;
}
}else{
commands = new String[number];
for (int i = 0; i < number;i++){
commands[i] = args;
}
}
System.out.print("Executing: ");
for (int i = 0; i< commands.length;i++){
System.out.print(commands[i] + " ");
}
Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process process = runtime.exec(commands);
// Because some native platforms only provide limited buffer size
// for standard input and output streams, failure to promptly write
// the input stream or read the output stream of the subprocess
// may cause the subprocess to block, and even deadlock.
CheckStream csin = new
CheckStream(process.getInputStream());
CheckStream cserr = new
CheckStream(process.getErrorStream());
csin.start();
cserr.start();
System.out.print("Waiting for command process to terminate.");
int done = process.waitFor();
System.out.println("value of done ");
System.out.println(done);
process.destroy();
System.out.println("... Done.");
}catch(InterruptedException ie){
System.out.println("InterruptedException: " + ie.getMessage());
}catch(IOException ioe){
System.out.println("IOException: " + ioe.getMessage());
}
}
/** Inner class for checking the results if any of an InputStream.
*/
class CheckStream extends Thread{
BufferedReader br;
String lineread = "";
/** Constructor needs an InputStream to form an anonymous
* InputStreamReader which is used to create a
BufferedReader
* for reading the stream.
*/
CheckStream(InputStream is){
this.br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
}
/** Reads the input stream and displays anything returned.
*/
public void run(){
try{
while ((lineread = br.readLine()) != null){
System.out.println(lineread);
}
}catch(IOException ioe){
System.out.println("IOException: " + ioe.getMessage());
}
}
}
}