Wait for process to finish before proceeding in Java

Question

Essentially, I'm making a small program that's going to install some software, and then run some basic commands afterwards to prep that program. However, what is happening is that the program starts its install, and then immediately moves on to the following lines (registration, updates, etc). Of course, that can't happen until it's fully installed, so I'd like to find a way of waiting on the first process before running the second. For example,

    Main.say("Installing...");
    Process p1 = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(dir + "setup.exe /SILENT");
    //Wait here, I need to finish installing first!
    Main.say("Registering...");
    Process p2 = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(installDir + "program.exe /register aaaa-bbbb-cccc");
    Main.say("Updating...");
    Process p4 = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(installDir + "program.exe /update -silent");

Answer 1

Call Process#waitFor(). Its Javadoc says:

Causes the current thread to wait, if necessary, until the process represented by this Process object has terminated.

Bonus: you get the exit value of the subprocess. So you can check whether it exited successfully with code 0, or whether an error occured (non-zero exit code).

Answer 2

you can use Process.waitFor() method

and the doc says

Causes the current thread to wait, if necessary, until the process represented by this Process object has terminated. This method returns immediately if the subprocess has already terminated. If the subprocess has not yet terminated, the calling thread will be blocked until the subprocess exits.