Getting a thread to run to completion

[Thomas O'Brien]

I want to start a VB .exe (in a thread), and have it run to completetion exclusively. Is there any to do this? So, I basically want the code to pause while this executable runs. Thanks for the help.

[hanumanth reddy]

if u want to finish the current thread to its completion

use thread.join() method

[Carl Trusiak]

This actually looks to me to be a job for RunTime exec method.
A program like the following should work
String s;
int len;
byte[] buf = new byte[1000];
Process proc;
InputStream inDat InputStream inErr
try{
proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("<your vb program here>");
inErr = proc.getInputStream();
inDat = proc.getInputStream();
while((len=inDat.read(buf) > 0)
{
s = new String(buf,0,len); // do what you want with s
}
proc.waitFor();
}
catch(IOException e){}
}catch(InterruptedException ie){}