And another question

Quick scenario. I have a class method that runs bat files. In the bat file, is a call to the java compiler. If the bat file (and therefore the internal commands) runs successfully it indicates success and dumps the screen response into a StringBuffer.

If it fails, it indicates that it failed and does the same thing.

I can get it to run successfully, so I know the success message works just fine. When I intentionally tried to break it (ie., changed the name of the file to be compiled to something that is nonexistant) to test the failure message, instead of returning a failure message, it hung - I even let it run all night (had to go to bed anyway).

Is there a way to poll to see if the process is hung and then cancel it?

Thanks in advance.