Hi,

I'm using the following to execute prince from Java:

OutputStream os_file = new FileOutputStream("test.pdf");
Prince p = new Prince("/usr/local/bin/prince");
p.setVerbose(true);
p.setDebug(true);
p.setEmbedFonts(false);
boolean b = p.convert("in.html", os_file);

The linux prince script however is never executed. The java code is used in a servlet (on a tomcat app. server where princexml is installed).

Am I missing something?

Kind regards,
Michiel

Can you run /usr/local/bin/prince successfully from the command-line? Are there any security permissions on Tomcat that would prevent it from executing external programs? What mechanism are you using to check if the script is actually executing or not?

I can run princexml from the command line. So my guess is, it has something todo with the security settings Tomcat forces me to use.

When I stop using prince.jar, but use

Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
Process process = runtime.exec([i]command[/i]);

it works. I just call the shell script and it works.

Regards,
Michiel

Okay, that's helpful, although a bit strange as the Prince JAR is doing something very similar, just calling the exec method that takes an array instead of a single string.