Invoking "java myClass" using Runtime.Exec from a Java Stored Procedure

Hi All,
This is regarding the use of Runtime.getRunTime().exec, from a java programme (a Java Stored Procedure), to invoke another Java Class in command prompt.
I have read many threads here where people have been successuful in invoking OS calls, like any .exe file or batch file etc, from withing Java using the Runtime object.
Even i have tried a sample java programme from where i can invoke notepad.exe.
But i want to invoke another command prompt and run a java class, basically in this format:
{"cmd.exe","java myClass"}.
When i run my java programme (in command prompt), it doesnt invoke another command prompt...it just stays hanging.
When i run the java programme from my IDE, VisualCafe, it does open up a command prompt, but doesnt get the second command "java myCLass".
Infact on the title of the command prompt (the blue frame), shows the path of the java.exe of the Visual Cafe.
and anyway, it doesnt run my java class, that i have specified inside the programme.
Even if i try to run a JAR file, it still doesnt do anything.
(the JAR file other wise runs fine when i manually invoke it from the command prompt).
Well, my question is, actually i want to do this from a Java Stored Procedure inside oracle 8.1.7.
My feeling is, since the Java Stored Procedure wont be running from the command prompt (i will be actually invoking it through a Oracle trigger), it may be able to invoke the command prompt and run the java class i want. and that java class has to run with the SUn's Java, not Oracle JAva.
Does any one have any idea about it?
Has anyone ever invoked a java class or JAR file in command prompt from another Java Programme?
YOur help will be highly appreciated.
(P:S- Right now, my database is being upgraded, so i havent actually been able to create a Java Stored procedure and test it. But i have tested from a normal java programme running in command prompt and also from Visual Cafe).
Thanks in advance.
-- Subhasree.

Hello Hari,
Thanks for your quick reply.
Can you please elaborate a little more on exactly how you did? may be just copy an dpaste taht part of teh code here?
Thanks a lot in advance.
--Subhasree

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