How to make System command calls in Java/Groovy?

Question

What I want to do is invoke maven from a groovy script. The groovy script in question is used as a maven wrapper to build J2EE projects by downloading a tag and invoking maven o

Answer 1

You may use Runtime class to launch a shell command. take a look here: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Runtime.html#exec(java.lang.String) You may later capture the results of the Process execution (to find out if it failed or not).