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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2013 Intel Corporation.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Intel - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.yocto.remote.utils;
+
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
+import org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.ErrorDialog;
+import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
+
+public class CommonHelper {
+
+        static public boolean isExecAvail(String exec) {
+                boolean ret = false;
+                try {
+                        Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {"which", exec});
+                        p.waitFor();
+                        if(p.exitValue() == 0) {
+                                ret = true;
+                        }
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                        e.printStackTrace();
+                }
+                return ret;
+        }
+
+        public static void showErrorDialog(final String dialogTitle, final String errorMessage, final String reason) {
+                //needs to be run in the ui thread otherwise swt throws invalid thread access
+                Display.getDefault().syncExec(new Runnable() {
+                        @Override
+                        public void run() {
+                                ErrorDialog.openError(null, dialogTitle, errorMessage,
+                                                new Status(IStatus.ERROR,Activator.PLUGIN_ID,reason));
+                        }
+                });
+
+        }
+
+}