How to run an Exe from Java program

There sometimes we get a need to run a exe file from the java program. Now to run an exe type this try { Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime(); Process p = rt.exec("notepad.exe"); } catch(Exception e) { System.out.println(e); } Here wer are running notepad.exe from the program. If you want to run another file you have to enter the program name as your_program.exe . If the exe is not in the current directory you need to give the absolute path. You can also get the error value of the program using p.exitValue(); if you need to run another java program or a jar file use java -jar path_to_java_file/file.jar