External program

[baby77]

Hello,

can someone tell me how can i use external program-written in java in workflow.
Thanks a lot.

[mrogers]

How will you communicate with this external program?

Are you going to communicate with some sort of remote API?
Can you call its "Main" method directly?
Or are you going to run it through the OS command line?

[baby77]

Hey,
i can call main method directly.

And mrogers i have another question for you if you could be so kind and reply me back.
I saw what u write on forum theme Pulling meta data from other file formats?
I need to write Autocad metadata extracter.
Is there any final solution, example avaliable?
For now i have a application which converted DWG file into XML.
And now i want to use metadata extraction to parse xml.
How can i do that?I need to write java class,is here any other way?
I am not java expert.

Tnx for answer or any idea which can lead me to solution.