Restarting application

Question

Hi,
After about a day of frustration with the intricicies of Runtime.exec() and WinNT, I think I may have hit a standstill.
I need to be able to remotely restart my server. It is running on another machine and it has to restart so that it can be updated (via webstart).
The idea I had was to:
Connect to server and issue restart command (via RMI)
Start a seperate process (via Runtime.exec)
Have the process timeout for 30 seconds (via ping localhost)
Shutdown server (via System.exit)
Have the process restart the server (via java -jar)
The problem is that when I shutdown the server it looks like it takes all of the processes I started with it.
Is there anyway to do this?

Answer 1

Thanks for your response.
The problem is that I don't have access to winVNC or another app on the server. I don't control the server. The server is in another building, and whenever I need to do an update I have to call the people up and ask them to do it for me.
This leads to problems (political etc.), of which aren't really of concern to my question.
The latest idea I had but didn't have time to implement was to create a native C++ application that starts the server. The server has a command line argument causes it to delay for 30 seconds (I can't have it start right away else it won't be able to bind to the socket port as it's still being used). I'll let you know how that goes, as no one else seems to have a solution other then "you don't need to do that".