in reply to system call to a java program

What's the particular exception? Class not found? You probably need to add the path to getseq.class in your java classpath. You can do this by passing java a -classpath option, or defining the CLASSPATH environment variable.

Also, you're probably better of asking this on a more Java oriented forum, as your question is more about Java than it is about Perl.

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