|  | <article link="launching-java.html"> | 
|  | <title>Launching Java Applications Programmatically</title> | 
|  | <date>August 26, 2003</date> | 
|  |  | 
|  | <category>Java</category> | 
|  | <category>Plug-ins</category> | 
|  |  | 
|  | <author> | 
|  | <name>Darin Wright</name> | 
|  | <company>IBM</company> | 
|  | </author> | 
|  | <description> | 
|  | Application developers require the ability to run and debug code | 
|  | in order to test it. Tool developers require the ability to | 
|  | launch Java™ applications that assist in application | 
|  | development - for example, starting and stopping a Web server on | 
|  | which servlets, JSPs, and HTML pages can be tested; or launching | 
|  | a VM on which scrapbook evaluations can be performed. This | 
|  | article focuses on the high-level API provided by the Java | 
|  | launching plug-in that tool developers can leverage for the | 
|  | programmatic launching of local Java applications. | 
|  | </description> | 
|  | </article> |