How to capture console output of Eclipse plugin with custom Launch Configuration?

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I'm writing an Eclipse plugin with a custom launch configuration, i.e. a

launch()

method inside a subclass of

LaunchConfigurationDelegate

. This method essentially just calls

Runtime.exec()

, but when I write to System.out from within

launch()

it goes to the console of the Eclipse instance which is debugging the plugin, rather than to the console of the plugin instance itself. I've analysed the

ILaunchConfiguration

and

ILaunch

arguments to the method but cannot find anywhere that they specify any output/error streams I can write to.

As is recommended in the tutorials, I have 2 separate plugins running together; one which handles the UI stuff (

LaunchConfigurationTab

,

LaunchConfigurationTabGroup

,

LaunchShortcut

,) and the other which contains the

LaunchConfigurationDelegate

itself.

I created a console in my UI plugin using <a href="http://www.jevon.org/wiki/Writing_to_a_Console_in_Eclipse" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this code</a>, and I can write to it fine from within the UI code. But I cannot figure out how to direct output generated in my non-UI plugin to the console created in my UI plugin.

I've read <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2127718/eclipse-rcp-how-to-redirect-the-output-to-console-view">this post</a> and <a href="http://waynebeaton.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/displaying-the-console-in-your-rcp-application/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this one</a>, but they do not specify how to "get ahold" of the output which is generated within the

launch()

method in the first place.

Any pointers would be really welcome, I am stuck!