(Help) Run Java Programs With A Java Program?

[anthropamorphic]

Hello, I have been wanting to build a program that could run other peoples programs. What I mean is I would build a custom gui that could run things like terminal/console could.

Example:
if someone made a program like this
System.out.println("hello");
it would be able to run that and display it as the label.

[pbrockway2]

BeanShell is a mature and full featured interpreter for Java.

[anthropamorphic]

BeanShell is a mature and full featured interpreter for Java.

Wait what?

[Tolls]

What pbrockway said.
BeanShell will take text and interpret it as Java code.
You should (I've not tried, but I'd be surprised if you couldn't) be able to hook into the output from it, so should be able to get the "Hello World" output from your System.println("Hello World") line.

[Norm]

There is a java package: import javax.tools.JavaCompiler.*;
that might be of interest.

[anthropamorphic]

Oh ok well I wonder if you could just hook into the output of a terminal or console

[Norm]

Look at the Process and Runtime classes. They have methods to get the console output