Sure, but only if your program is standalone (or possibly if you fiddle the browser security settings). Use Exec to start the Perl process, passing the info on the command line. If the Perl process does all the remaining processing, you can use execPrint or just let the process run (after, say, exec) and print output.

If you need to communicate with the new process, it would probably be best to open a TCP connection to the Perl child. You might be able to use a Java pipe, but I do not know if it can be used across languages.

HTH, --traveler

In reply to Re: how can you pass values from the objects in java to the perl program? by traveler
in thread how can you pass values from the objects in java to the perl program? by johnklucas

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