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 dormant.
• Activity picked up again 2008
• The first release was 2009