The problem is that if one starts a crawl with the method: requestCrawlStart() on the CrawlController the crawler starts OK - but returns at once - so it looks like the crawl ends almost before it has begun - you have to make your calling program wait for the crawler to finish !
I struggeled a little with this myself !

I have attached a little simple javaprogram that works with 1.2.0
You can launch a crawl with: java -Xmx128m dk.netarkivet.harvestcontroller.SimpleHeritrixLauncher <orderfile>

It waits for the crawler to finish by attaching a CrawlStatusListener !

Remember to include both heritrix.jar and the jars in $HERITRIX_HOME/lib in your CLASSPATH

best
Bjarne Andersen
www.netarchive.dk

stack wrote:

spielc wrote:

>
> Hi everybody!
>
> I'm trying to start Heritrix (Heritrix - version 1.2.0) from another
> Java-Application. As i don't need the Web-UI for this app i started
> (better said tried to start) it using the main-method of heritrix with
> two arguments: Heritrix.main(new
> String[]{"--nowui",orderFile.getAbsolutePath()}); orderFile is a
> java.io.File-Object pointing to the Order-File i want to run. Well it
> starts to crawl but it finishes too early (by looking at the report
> files i could see that just 2 files were crawled...). I ran Heritrix
> from command-line with --nowui and the same Order-File and it works
> alot longer and more correct in my eyes. The lil code fragment that's
> in the FAQ doesn't work neither as launch is a protected static
> method...
>
> I would be grateful for every assistance i can get!!

Do the logs tell you anything about why the crawl runs for a shorter
time?  Paste in the crawl.log if its only two lines  (Look in
local-errors and in STDOUT/STDERR for any exceptions).  The crawler
should do the same thing in the two contexts.
Yours,
St.Ack
P.S. #launch access is changed in Heritrix HEAD.

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