[news.eclipse.platform] Re: running an external process

[Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had already seen that one, but the documentation says:

"Instances of this class represent programs and their associated file 
extensions in the operating system."

so it's only for that specific context...

Snjezana Peco wrote:
> You can try org.eclipse.swt.program.Program
>
> Snjeza
>
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I hope this is the right newsgroup to ask this question;
> >
> > I need to run an external program from an eclipse plugin I'm working on.
> > Can I use the standard Java API (Process, etc.) or are there any 
> > specific API from eclipse?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >     Lorenzo
> >
> > P.S. of course any link to examples on line are welcome :-)