This is the code snippet that does the job: Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime(); serverIPOrHostName = (String) bfuParameters.get(SERVERIP_HOSTNAME); service = (String) bfuParameters.get(SERVICE_NAME); String cmd = SERVICECHECK + SYMBOL + serverIPOrHostName + QUERY + service; p = r.exec(cmd); inp = p.getInputStream(); byte[] dataInput = new byte[320]; inp.read(dataInput); String inputData = new String(dataInput); //Logger added to read the service response. logger.error(inputData); //Checks for specified sequence of characters in the string and //returns boolean. if (inputData.contains(SERVICE_RUNNING)) { result = 1; } else { result = 0; } View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075100#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...