Executing a command programatically in Eclipse console

Question

From my Eclipse plugin, I want to execute a command and show the results in the Console view (and later do some formatting and hyperlinking and pattern matching, which is done via the org.eclipse.ui.console.consolePatternMatchListeners extension point AFAIK). My question is how to do this? In plain Java, I would use a ProcessBuilder. Do I have to do this and bind the stdout/stderr somehow to a newly created console page or is there another way? Any pointers/experiences are appreciated.

Answer 1

Using Eclipse FAQ, this SO question and the ProcessBuilder, I managed to lazily create my console, show it and echo the input stream of the process to the console's message stream (instead of System.out).