ExecuteExternalCommand (Exec) Activity

The ExecuteExternalCommand activity allows for a number of shell operations like copy, jar, mkdir, and so on. to be carried out. Internally, ExecuteExternalCommand uses Jakarta Ant commands, so the specification of that tool will give a full description of all the valid commands for this activity.

ExecuteExternalCommand uses java reflection to send values to an Ant command, and to actually execute it. It is the responsibility of the workflow designer to supply the correct attribute names and values to ExecuteExternalCommand in the parameter tags.