.Exe inside a .jar

Question

Running a process is easy:
      final Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(path+exe+"  " + args);However a problem exists when the application and the executable get
packaged together in a single jar file.
First I tried something like:
String str = ThisClass.class.getResource(path + exe).getPath() + args;And passing str as the exec argument which still succeeds in but fails outside a
.jar file.
Does anybody know :
a) if this is possible in the first place (it seems logical to be possible)
b) how to do this
thanks

Answer 1

Since no comments have been posted yet. It might be usefull that I give the solution I , used which comes to extracting the .exe from the jarfile. Or from the current location
when working from an IDE.
            File temp = File.createTempFile(tempstring, ".exe");
            final DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(TriangleGraph.class
                    .getResourceAsStream("the_exe.exe"));
            final DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(
                    new FileOutputStream(temp));After this the contents of the exe can be from in to out. And a process can be
created with
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(temp.getAbsolutePath() + " " + params);Which solved my problem. Comments on this approach are welcome.