Eliminating the Command window in Windows

Question

I had thought I had found a way to make the command window (the black command interpreter window in Windows that comes up when you run the JVM) go away. I used the following code:
public class StartApp {
     public static void main( String[] args ) {
          String command = "java";
          for ( int n = 0; n < args.length; n++ )
               command += " " + args[n];
          if ( args.length > 0 ) {
               try {
                    Runtime.getRuntime( ).exec( command );
                    System.exit( 0 );
               catch ( Exception e ) {
                    System.err.println( e );
                    System.exit( 1 );
          else
               System.out.println( "Format: java StartApp [-options] <filename> [arguments]" );
          System.exit( 0 );
When I run this Java app and put in another app for it to run, it runs that app just fine (it's a Swing app so I don't need the command window visible). Not only that, but it gives me the command line right after starting it (meaning the original app exited). So, theoretically, you would think I could just type "exit" to close the command window. Well, when I do type that, the command window waits until the program exits before actually closing. Manually closing the command window closes the whole program. The odd thing was, an older version (I think Java 1.1) of the JRE would allow the command window to close. But, with 1.3, it does not. Does anyone have any idea about how I could change this, or of another way to get rid of the command window?
-Sam Fahmie

Answer 1

Sorry, didn't put the code tag in right...
public class StartApp {
     public static void main( String[] args ) {
          String command = "java";
          for ( int n = 0; n < args.length; n++ )
               command += " " + args[n];
          if ( args.length > 0 ) {
               try {
                    Runtime.getRuntime( ).exec( command );
                    System.exit( 0 );
               catch ( Exception e ) {
                    System.err.println( e );
                    System.exit( 1 );
          else
               System.out.println( "Format: java StartApp [-options] <filename> [arguments]" );
          System.exit( 0 );