Program: How to invoke other applicatons in java?

By using ProcessBuilder class, you can invoke any application in java. Below example shows how to run a java class using ProcessBuilder class. Here first argument takes the command, and command arguments follows after this. Here first argument invokes java.exe file, and sencond argument passes MyTest.classfile to java application. You can pass any number of arguments to an application.

package com.java2novice.processbuilder;

import java.io.IOException;

public class MyInvokeOtherApps {

	public static void main(String a[]){
		
		ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("java", "MyTest");
		try {
			pb.start();
			System.out.println("Process has been started.");
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

Process has been started.