what i'm trying to do is execute some simple java code dynamically...
well i know this involves using ClassLoader and reflection to invoke the main method of the java program. of course this needs to be done from a servlet or jsp page
however someone more knowledgeable than me propose me this :
If the program uses System.out or System.err (as most simple ones do) it's a bit of a pain, because output from the entire web server goes there.
You can override System.out by creating a new PrintStream object and passing it to System.setOut() but that's going to affect everything that happens to be written for the entire webserver.
What I'd do is to create a special OutputStream object which steared "write" attempts to some suitable cache. But it's behaviour has to depend if it's running on the thread that's executing your user program (or another thread created by the user program). (Overriding the OutputStream is simpler than writing a complete PrintStream.)
Then I'd permanently, one time, insert those new writers into System.
Because of multi-threading it's not enough to set the output back again after the program has run.
There's a class called InheritableThreadLocal, which allows an object to have a different value for each thread it runs on. You can stear the write requests using that.
Before running the client program create an appropriate OutputStream (a temporary file or memory buffer) and insert set the InheritableThreadLocal to point to it. After the client had run (or crashed, use finally) close the stream and set the ThreadLocal to null.
The write methods of the Streams you direct out and err to check the ThreadLocal, and if it's not null send the data there, if it is null they send it to the default writers.
Well I need someone to help me translate above into real java code...I would appreciate some java code to get me started on this.
thanking you !