Launching windowed program from getRuntime().exec( )

hello,
I have a tomcat web app that launches media player from getRuntime().exec(mediaplayerExecutable). It works fine when i run tomcat manually (startup.bat) but it only plays audio when I run tomcat as a service. when i look at the error messages for media player process, it complaining about "direct3d video output error: Could not read adapter capabilities"....
I believe it is execution context issue. any idea? Thanks in advanced.

Services in Windows must not have a user interface.
If I remember correctly, there are special loopholes that (native) Windows services go through to get at least some user interaction, but by default you can't interact with the user via the UI at all.
This seems to go for applications started from services as well.
But why would you ever want to start a video client from a service? Or a application server at all?

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