sending commands to the system

I would like to send a command to the java compiler from an application and was hoping someone could explain it to me or point me in the direction where i might information on doing this.
[194 byte] By [ChadNCa] at [2007-10-3 3:54:55]
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If you had searched this forum, you would have found literally hundreds of posts asking this same question. Check out Runtime.exec()
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