including an exe file to jar

Question

I have written a java program that is actually works as a gui to an existing command line program. so in basic all my program does is Runtime.getRuntime().exec(\"mypro

Answer 1

You can simply jar it up as an extra resource (like a .css, .properties etc.).

When your Java program runs, extract the .exe using Class.getResourceAsStream() and write it to a temporary directory in order to run it from there (since you can't run it directly from the .jar file).