Introduction

Rationale

Commons Exec is library to execute external processes from within a Java application. Doing so without using a library is a error prone task therefore many developers used the following approaches

• using ANT internally which is overkill
• ripping ANT apart to get the desired functionality
• writing their home-grown library
• using plexux-utils
  

Initial source

The project is based on the ANT source code being the most mature implementation

History

The project was accepted to join the sandbox in 2005 but was more or less dormantDescribe Exec here.