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March 20, 1997

Launching Another Application from Java

Question: Is it possible to launch another application from aJava application (not an applet)? Answer: Yes. There are two classes of interest for performingsystem level functions such as this: java.lang.Runtime

Equivalent of void myRoutine in Java?

Question: I know that in order to pass something byreference, you pass an already-created objectand let the subroutine modify the contents ofthat object. Unfortunately, the Integer, String,etc. objects don’t allow