Running a bat file from a Tomcat servlet using the exec command

[Chris]

I cannot get a Tomcat servlet to execute a Windows Bat file.
Is there a particular setting in the catalina.policy file that I need
to change?
Here is a code snippet of the call:

Runtime load = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process process = load.exec("cmd.exe /c start copyFiles.bat", null,
new File("C:\\Tomcat 5.0\\webapps\\myApp\\files"));

Thanks for any help.

-Chris

 

[Chris]

I cannot get a Tomcat servlet to execute a Windows Bat file.
Is there a particular setting in the catalina.policy file that I need
to change?
Here is a code snippet of the call:

Runtime load = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process process = load.exec("cmd.exe /c start copyFiles.bat", null,
new File("C:\\Tomcat 5.0\\webapps\\myApp\\files"));

Thanks for any help.

-Chris

OK, I have got it working.
I needed to add some entries to the catalina.policy file to set
execute permissions on
java.lang.RuntimePermission
java.lang.Win32Process

I'm not sure if they are both needed.
-Chris