guys, i have a java web app with a postgres backend. now i want to implement a db database functionality from within my web app. now i have got this so far, String[] args = {"\"C:\\Program Files\\PostgreSQL\\8.1\\bin\\pg_dump\"", " -i", " -h", " localhost", " -p", " 5432", " -U", " postgres", " -F", " t", " -b", " -v", " -f", " \"C:\\Test.backup\"", " TESTDB"}; String result = ""; if (args.length > 0) { result = args[0]; // start with the first element for (int i=1; i<args.length; i++) { result = result + args[i]; } } Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(result); Now on executing this i am getting a file called Test.backup, but its 0KB compeletely empty. can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong and how can i fix it. somebody also told me that this is not the best way of doing this, and i was wondering is there a better way of implementhing this. Thanks.