Calling an external program!

Salut all, Im using unfortunately Oracle Forms 6i, and I need to call an external program that I have to develop in Java, compiled into .jar. I just wanna use something like java -jar myJar.jar <my params...> but I don´t know how to call external programs from Oracle Forms, in special from 6i.
I have searched this thread passed (Re: Calling JAVA from PL/SQL but didn´t help me so much.
Thanks all for patience!

In version 9 and 10 we have a general way of calling out to java thru the Java Importer functionality.
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