how to call 2 java programs in one another java program

[renu]

Hi

I have written 2 java programs (ie., 2 java projects named school project and census project)

Now i need to write another java program that will give little menu , asking the user what they are trying to do .

Please enter:
1 for school project
2 for census project

In which case you will check for validity and call your appropriate program.

Pls anyone tell me , how to do this in java .
And how to call 2 different projects from another project .

Anyhelp to start off is appreciated.

[Norm]

What is a "program"?
Everything in java is contained in a class.
I think of a program as a class with a main method that you can start execution of by using the java command. The main method can create and call many other classes. All the classes that are used are part of the "program".

Also you use the word: project. Is this something to do with how to use an IDE?
If so, is there a forum for the IDE you could ask the question on?

[JosAH]

I think of a program as a class with a main method that you can start execution of by using the java command.

You can even call the main( ... ) method of that other class directly (it is static and it is public); the entire thing would run in the same jvm as the caller.

kind regards,

Jos

[renu]

I am trying to understand what you are saying .I am really a basic new java programmer .Learning and doing at the same time.

Can anyone of you , give me a skeleton of code showing me how the third class will call 2 other classes based on the choice of the user.

I wrote 2 projects seperately in eclipse .
Now i want the third project to give a choice to the user to select any one of the 2 projects.

In real world ...it is like this

I as a user should have choice to select either school project or census project to give me the results .

How would i do that in java ..

Pls explain me in detail and i would appreciate , if anyone will give me a skeleton code to explain the choice of choosing from 2 diff projects .

[j2me64]

Hi

I have written 2 java programs (ie., 2 java projects named school project and census project)

Now i need to write another java program that will give little menu , asking the user what they are trying to do .

Please enter:
1 for school project
2 for census project

In which case you will check for validity and call your appropriate program.

Pls anyone tell me , how to do this in java .
And how to call 2 different projects from another project .

Anyhelp to start off is appreciated.

if each program is in its own class then instantiate the classes and call the methods of the class you want. if all programs are in the same class then call the appropriate method.

watch out: your classes should have the same project root.

[Norm]

Using classes from other projects should work the same way as you use Java's classes.
If needed, import the package and then use new to create new objects of the classes you want to execute.
If the the other "programs" are independent, standalone programs, that expect to be called/started by the java command, then as JosAH says you can start the class by calling its static method: main method. For example:
SchoolProject.main(new String[]{});
A problem will be that the program could call System.exit(0); which will end the JVM for every class.

[JosAH]

A problem will be that the program could call System.exit(0); which will end the JVM for every class.

Nothing a little SecurityManager can't cure ;-)

kind regards,

Jos

[Norm]

Of course.
One of my projects was something I called ExecJava. It runs a number of my tools in a single JVM using classloaders and a SecurtyManager and whatever else I needed at the time. All my tools can run either standalone or inside this program's JVM.
I was working on a smaller, slower machine when I developed it. The startup time for a JVM was long, so I started one JVM and put all my tools in that one. Besides that was what I had done for a living for many years: Maintained an IBM OS

[renu]

thank You all for your replies.

I did write a single class asking for the option from the user and put the 2 projects i wrote before ..its code into an if clause and it works .

Thank You ..Now i will have only one class which will be a standalone program on each users PC.