Launching wkhtmltopdf from Runtime.getRuntime().exec(): never terminates?

Question

I\'m launching wkhtmltopdf from within my Java app (part of a Tomcat server, running in debug mode within Eclipse Helios on Win7 64-bit): I\'d like to wait for it to comple

Answer 1

    final Semaphore semaphore = new Semaphore(numOfThreads);
    final String whktmlExe = tmpwhktmlExePath;
    int doccount = 0;
    try{
        File fileObject = new File(inputDir);
        for(final File f : fileObject.listFiles()) {

            if(f.getAbsolutePath().endsWith(".html")) {
                doccount ++;
                if(doccount >500 ) {
                    LOG.info(" done with conversion of 1000 docs exiting ");
                    break;
                }
                System.out.println(" inside for before "+semaphore.availablePermits());
                semaphore.acquire();
                System.out.println(" inside for after "+semaphore.availablePermits() + " ---" +f.getName());
                new java.lang.Thread() {
                    public void run() {
                        try {
                            String F_ =  f.getName().replaceAll(".html", ".pdf") ;
                            ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(whktmlExe , f.getAbsolutePath(), outPutDir + F_ .replaceAll(" ", "_") );//"wkhtmltopdf.exe", htmlFilePath, pdfFilePath);
                            pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
                            Process process = pb.start();
                            BufferedReader errStreamReader = new BufferedReader(new  InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));  
                            String line = errStreamReader.readLine(); 
                            while(line != null) 
                            { 
                                System.err.println(line); //or whatever else
                                line = errStreamReader.readLine(); 
                            }

                            System.out.println("after completion for ");
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                            e.printStackTrace();
                        }finally {
                            System.out.println(" in finally releasing ");
                        semaphore.release();
                        }
                  }
                }.start();
            }
        }
    }catch (Exception ex) {
        LOG.error(" *** Error in pdf generation *** ", ex);
    }

    while (semaphore.availablePermits() < numOfThreads) {//till all threads finish 
        LOG.info( " Waiting for all threads to exit "+ semaphore.availablePermits() + " --- " +( numOfThreads - semaphore.availablePermits()));
        java.lang.Thread.sleep(10000);
    }