c calling java program

Guys,
Is there a way to call java program from my C program in Solaris environment.
Thanks for your time
Maalti Iyer

The simplest way is to use the system() function. Which spawns a shell and has your program waiting for it return. The argument to system() is a complete string as you'd supply from the shell.
If you want to get fancy with exec/execlp/exec* you can actually replace your program space with the new java process, saving you on the total number of processes.

Thanks Leslie.
Here's the requirement:
For every row I read from the database my C program has to call a java class to decrypt the data. I was wondering how to optimize the system() call.
I appreciate your help.
Thanks again,
maalti Iyer.

system("java MyJavaClass.class arg1 arg2 ");
is it like this?