>You already have a couple of answers revolvng around Shellexecute. Depending on your needs you might wish for even tighter integration. Around turn of millenium I was involved in integrating Java routines in a vfp program calling those Java routines directly as biz layer.
>We went with a free COM integration packet called JACOB (IIRC JAva Com Object Broker) which worked without problem.
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>Have read somewhere that a new project was created as follow up, you might still start googling with JACOB java com integration to follow if you need that level of integration.
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>One of the benefits is it loads the Java runtime coupled to the original vfp process and keeps it loaded for more calls into it: the java startup sequence is only encountered once. Doable with totally separate processes, but would rquire even more unnecessary code ;-))
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>>Hello, I have a program that has to comunicate via a Java program that communicates with a web service by sending an XML file. I have to do this:
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>>RUN java DHLClient.java "c:\requests\XmlRequestFile.xls" "https://xmlpi-ea.mySupplier.com/XMLmySupplierServlet" "c:\responses\ResponseXML.xml"
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>>It shows me a windows with a black background, which, I suppose, is the cmd window, and after processing the file it closes automatically.
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>>What I want is NOT to show that window and, instead, show a message with something like a WAIT WINDOW command.
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>>Is there a way to call that command without showing a black CMD or Java window?
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>>TIA

I've searched for it but could not find it. Can you point me in the right direction? I find it very interesting because I have to call java many times consecutively and I guess it can save me precious time.