[rainwalker]

I have an application that I created in powerbuilder and I want to use the coldfusion web service to open the application (.exe) every five minutes and then close the application.

I'm just learning CF and I'm not sure what to do?

[skyhawk133]

Welcome to dream.in.code rainwalker!

As with anything code related, there are a couple ways to accomplish what you are trying to do. I think the best way to run a .exe file every 5 minutes would be to setup a "Scheduled Task" in the ColdFusion Administrator and have it run a .cfm file with a cfexecute tag.

The cfexecute tag will then call your .exe file on the server and run it. Here is the syntax for cfexecute:

<cfexecute name = "C:\WinNT\System32\netstat.exe"
   arguments = "-e" 
   outputFile = "C:\Temp\output.txt"
   timeout = "1">
</cfexecute>

For information on the arguments cfexecute uses: http://livedocs.macr...le=00000243.htm

Let us know if that works for you.