Running Selenium from a Java process

How would you run the Selenium process (thread) from a Java process so I don't have to start Selenium by hand?

From stackoverflow

• The server:

  import org.openqa.selenium.server.SeleniumServer;
  public class SeleniumServerControl {
    private static final SeleniumServerControl instance = new SeleniumServerControl();
    public static SeleniumServerControl getInstance() {
      return instance;
    }
    private SeleniumServer server = null;
    protected SeleniumServerControl() {
    }
    public void startSeleniumServer() {
      if (server == null) {
        try {
          server = new SeleniumServer(SeleniumServer.DEFAULT_PORT);
          System.out.println(" selenium server " + server.toString());
        } catch (Exception e) {
          System.err.println("Could not create Selenium Server because of: "
              + e.getMessage());
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
      }
      try {
        server.start();
      } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println("Could not start Selenium Server because of: "
            + e.getMessage());
        e.printStackTrace();
      }
    }
    public void stopSeleniumServer() {
      if (server != null) {
        try {
          server.stop();
          server = null;
        } catch (Exception e) {
          System.err.println("Could not stop Selenium Server because of: "
              + e.getMessage());
          e.printStackTrace();
        }
      }
    }
  }
  

  The client:

  browser = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*firefox", "http://www.google.com");
  browser.start();
  

• does that SeleniumServer class come with selenium RC?

• Also there are some additional settings you can use:

   RemoteControlConfiguration settings = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
   File f = new File("/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/default");
   settings.setFirefoxProfileTemplate(f);
   settings.setReuseBrowserSessions(true);
   settings.setSingleWindow(true);
   if (this.ServerWorks == false)
   {
    try
    {
     server = new SeleniumServer(settings);
     server.start();
     this.ServerWorks = true;
    } catch (Exception e)
    {
     e.printStackTrace();
    }
   }