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    Action script - how to invoke an executable?
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    created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/olddave">olddave</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/647418#647418">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>This action script will give you the idea of what I need to do </p><p>[code]</p><p>String osname = System.getProperty("os.name");</p><p>if(osname.equals("Linux")) {</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Runtime.getRuntime().exec("wineconsole --backend=user "/vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/des.exe -D -u -k \"xcvfrew\" /vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/equity_desc.enc.out /vendor_files/bbg_ps_out/equity_desc.out");</p><p>} else if(osname.indexOf("Windows") == 0) {</p><p>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c C:/vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/des.exe -D -u -k \"xcvfrew\" C:/vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/equity_desc.enc.out C:/vendor_files/bbg_ps_out/equity_desc.out");</p><p>} </p><p>[/code]</p><p>The Window specific command works fine. The Linux command never works.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I have substituted the Linux cd with this "/vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/rundes.sh" and that does not work either. Where rundes.sh has </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>[code]</p><p>#!/bin/bash</p><p>wineconsole --backend=user /vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/des.exe -D -u -k "xcvfrew"&#160; /vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/equity_desc.enc.out /vendor_files/bbg_ps_out/equity_desc.out</p><p>[/code]</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I have tried both mvel and java types for the Action script</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I have tried </p><p>[code]</p><p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: #ffffff;">"/bin/bash -c '</span>wineconsole --backend=user "/vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/des.exe -D -u -k \"xcvfrew\" /vendor_files/bbg_ps_enc/equity_desc.enc.out /vendor_files/bbg_ps_out/equity_desc.out'"</p><p>[/code]</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I tried adding the full path for wineconsole too, no change.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p> And all combinations of the above. All these commands work perfectly inside a shell window. These techniques have been gleaned from a number of articles on the web about how to use Runtime.exec, but they do not appear to work within Drools</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>So is it possible? If so how?</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Thx.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Ed</p></div>

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