Thread Related Problem

[Rushikesh Wagh]

Dear Friends,

Last Few Days I am facing a small problem. Its related to threads.
I am creating a thread, in its run() method i am calling a batch file by using the following command,

Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("MySample1.bat");

Now, the problem is, i want to run few more batches(say MySample2.bat, MySample3.bat..) in loop. Before that i want to make sure that the batches run one afer another....

Any kind of suggessions are welcome...

[sherin stephen]

i dont think of that is possible straight away because you are invoking a batch process that is beyond the controll of your program

[Nilesh Deshpande]

Create a batch file which will contain the calls to other batch files.
And call that batch file from the java program.

Dont use the the start statement in batch file. By default the batch calls are single threaded. So no over lap will happen.

You should also do the error handling in the batch scripts.

[Terry Huang]

um im not quite sure that i fully understand you but what you can do is do something like this

  String files[]={....the batch file names you would put...};
        for(int i=0;i<files.length;i++)
        {
         Process p=Runtime.getRuntime().exec(files[i]);
         // then do whatever you want here
} 

[Tom Johnson]

Hi,
You can use this command
p.waitFor();
"causes the current thread to wait, if necessary, until the process represented by this Process object has terminated. This method returns immediately if the subprocess has already terminated. If the subprocess has not yet terminated, the calling thread will be blocked until the subprocess exits."

Put this at the start (or end) of the for loop to make it wait for the batch process to finish before kicking off the next one.

/Tom