Linking Java to Windows Command

Question

Hie all,
I would like to call a certain executable program from windows while i am running my program. I have tried looking at classes like System, Process, and Runtime. I wonder if i had missed out anything else. Say for instance i want to "Ping" and InetAddress which i obtained from my Java socket , can anyone tells me how can i do that.
Please help me out. Thank you so much and i am certainly waiting impatiently for a reply. Please mail your answer to me as well as posting it here. Thankz.
Regards,
Dave
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Answer 1

I don't understand why you can't use Runtime.exec() to do this.
Runtime r;
Application app;
InputStream is;
r = System.getRuntime();
try {
    app = r.exec("ping 127.0.0.1");
    is = app.getInputStream();
    // read input stream ....
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}To get the results, just read the stdout from the input stream.
Rhys