An example of howto execute commands in Win using java.lang.Runtime
public class Launch { String command = null; Launch() { } Launch(String cmd) { command = "cmd /c " + cmd; } boolean run() { Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime(); System.out.println("exec : "+command); try { Process pr = rt.exec(command); pr.waitFor(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getInputStream())); String oneLine = null; while ((oneLine = br.readLine()) != null) { System.out.println("stdout:"+oneLine); } BufferedReader errBr = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getErrorStream())); while ((oneLine = errBr.readLine()) != null) System.out.println("stderr:"+oneLine); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return false; } return true; } }