[java] process.waitFor() never returns

I think I observed a similar problem: some processes started, seemed to run successfully but never completed. The function waitFor() was waiting forever except if I killed the process in Task Manager.
However, everything worked well in cases the length of the command line was 127 characters or shorter. If long file names are inevitable you may want to use environmental variables, which may allow you keeping the command line string short. You can generate a batch file (using FileWriter) in which you set your environmental variables before calling the program you actually want to run. The content of such a batch could look like:

    set INPUTFILE="C:\Directory 0\Subdirectory 1\AnyFileName"
    set OUTPUTFILE="C:\Directory 2\Subdirectory 3\AnotherFileName"
    set MYPROG="C:\Directory 4\Subdirectory 5\ExecutableFileName.exe"
    %MYPROG% %INPUTFILE% %OUTPUTFILE%

Last step is running this batch file using Runtime.