An executable on the server or on the client?
Javascript is only on the client side but unless I'm mistaken there is no way to launch executables with it.
If you were using Java (note: Java != Javascript) you could use
servlets or
JSP (same thing really) to run executables on the server.
You use the Runtime.exec() to create a process that can execute commands.
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