Launching a java application from another java application

Hi,
I'm facing an interesting challenge :-)
Inside a Java application, I want to start another java application.
Possible solutions in my list :
1. Using jakarta commons launcher.
2. Runtime.exec (make the code platform dependent).
3. Starting the main method of the other app by create a new Thread inside the current app
4. I know people did this by calling an ant target from the java application but I don't have
any sample code, I appreciate any sample code for it.
Thanks,
Ali Salehi

That is an iteresting challenge :)Don't be mean; he's polite, done some investigation and taken the trouble to be clear. The question, presumably, is "has anyone got a different solution or a preference as to which of these is the best?"
In which case, my advice would be to say that invoking main in a separate thread is fundamentally different from Runtime.exec() because the former would run in the same JVM. Is this what you want? If one app has the other on its classpath then do they need to be separate apps? Could they be modules of a single app?

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