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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Taking control of external processes

Up to JDK 9, if you wanted to create a Java process and handle process input/output, you had to use either the Runtime.getRuntime.exec() method, which allows us to execute a command in a separate OS process and get a java.lang.Process instance over which to provide certain operations in order to manage the external process, or use the new java.lang.ProcessBuilder class with some more enhancements in regard to interacting with the external process and also create a java.lang.Process instance to represent the external process. Both mechanisms were inflexible and also non-portable as the set of commands executed by the external processes were highly dependent on the operating system (additional effort had ...

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