[java] Difference between ProcessBuilder and Runtime.exec()

There are no difference between ProcessBuilder.start() and Runtime.exec() because implementation of Runtime.exec() is:

public Process exec(String command) throws IOException {
    return exec(command, null, null);
}

public Process exec(String command, String[] envp, File dir)
    throws IOException {
    if (command.length() == 0)
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Empty command");

    StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(command);
    String[] cmdarray = new String[st.countTokens()];
    for (int i = 0; st.hasMoreTokens(); i++)
        cmdarray[i] = st.nextToken();
    return exec(cmdarray, envp, dir);
}

public Process exec(String[] cmdarray, String[] envp, File dir)
    throws IOException {
    return new ProcessBuilder(cmdarray)
        .environment(envp)
        .directory(dir)
        .start();
}

So code:

List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
new StringTokenizer(command)
.asIterator()
.forEachRemaining(str -> list.add((String) str));
new ProcessBuilder(String[])list.toArray())
            .environment(envp)
            .directory(dir)
            .start();

should be the same as:

Runtime.exec(command)

Thanks dave_thompson_085 for comment