Attributes Invoking External Scripts

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/7/14, 5:45 PM, "Peter Schober" <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> wrote:

>* Jason <shibboleth at happycat.org.uk> [2014-08-07 21:26]:
>> Does anyone have an example of some ecmascript I can use in the
>> scripted attribute that would invoke an external script?
>
>You shouldn't be able to do that (breaking out of the JVM and calling
>external code) easily, from my limited understanding of Java.

There might be sandboxing permissions or something involved, but on the
server side that stuff usually isn't active, and you can just run system
calls in a fairly typical way. Of course, coordinating that to avoid hung
processes is a whole other thing.

-- Scott