How to run a thread separate from main thread in Java?

Question

The goal is to be able to invoke execution of a separate thread from within the main class.

Some context: I have a program that must ru

Answer 1

Sounds like you want a script which calls the first program and then when the first finishes, it calls the second program.

Something like

program1
program2

EDIT: To run the two tasks in parallel you can do

program1 &
program2

in a bash/unit shell.

or in dos shell

start program1
program2