This week's book giveaway is in the Agile and other Processes forum. We're giving away four copies of The Mikado Method and have Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund on-line! See this thread for details.
Basically you need to use a variation of: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c start myfile.bat"); Do a search on "Runtime exec start" and you will find lots of discussions about this.