Use of Runtime.getRuntime().exec

Does anyone use Runtime.getRuntime().exec to call programs on the 400?

I have an application that calls a COBOL program to perform some complicated
business logic spanning numerous files.  I need to call the program with
some parameters.  The data is returned by a socket.  Before this program
calls the COBOL program, I start a new thread that is a socket server to
listen for the response from the COBOL program.

Right now I am using ProgramCall class to call the program.  I use
CommandCall to set the library list.  Both of these need an AS400 object.  I
would like to eliminate the overhead of the AS400 object communication and
do a direct call to the program.

I was thinking of using Runtime.getRuntime().exec to execute the commands
and to call the program.  I was not sure if Runtime.getRuntime().exec can
call a program with parameters.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Mike

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Mike Silvers
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