Run program.exe from eclipse plugin project

Question

I am writing an eclipse-plugin witch run program.exe. I have added program.exe to plugin jar file. How can a execute this program?

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Answer 1

You should just execute the program like you would in cmd, but now specify the whole path of the programs location.

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C:\\your\\path\\program.exe");

In the Oracle documentation of the Runtime class you can see the acceptable inputs in exec().