Displaying a native Windows GUI program in a JFrame

Hello,
I am working on a troubleshooting program that will bring up a control panel applet along with my own JFrame containing instructions on what to do for a certain topic. In order to avoid one window overlapping another, I want to be able to control where both windows appear. One possibility I have thought of is to execute the control panel applet so it appears within the same JFrame or a different JFrame, and then I could control the position of that.
I am using Runtime.exec to execute the control panel applet from the command prompt. Simply adding the Process that this function returns to the contentPane (Container for my JFrame) does not work because Process is in a different class hierarchy from Container.
I was wondering if anyone knew either how to do what I just mentioned or how to control the position of a windows gui app that i execute from the command prompt. Any information that at least pointed me in the right direction would be very helpful. Thanks.

Just to be clear...
You have two seperate processes (two JVMs.)
If so "class hierarchy" is meaningless because there is no interaction between the two JVMs that you do not explicitly provide.
So you have several choices.
First you can delve deep into the internals of windows and figure out how to determine where the various windows appear on the screen. Unless you are already an expert in the windows API this is going to take a lot of research.
Second you can simply send use a communication medium (like sockets) to let each application tell the other app where it is. I believe the java api allows you some information on the screen position. If not then you will have to again delve into the windows internals.
Three when both applications are running then only one application has a gui. The other application uses a communication medium (like a socket) to send relevant info to the other app. And the other app manages both GUIs.

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