using xterm with java

first of all, I found a lot of questions about xterm and java, but no questions handles my problem directly.

What is my problem? I want to start a xterm terminal from java and I want to send commands to this terminal. First I just want to change the directory, but it does not work. But it is important, that I don't know all commands at the beginning of the program, so it is recommended, that I can send commands to the terminal at run-time.

Here is my code:

String[] command= {"xterm"}; Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime(); Process pr = rt.exec(command); Thread.sleep(2000); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getInputStream())); ReadThread input = new ReadThread(in); input.start(); BufferedReader error = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getErrorStream())); ReadThread inputError = new ReadThread(error); inputError.start(); PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(pr.getOutputStream())),true); printWriter.println("cd /home/***/sipp/sipp-3.3\n"); Thread.sleep(2000); input.die(); inputError.die(); printWriter.close(); error.close(); in.close(); pr.destroy(); 

I thought that the terminal will open (it does) and change the directory to sipp-3.3 after 2 seconds. Another 2 seconds later the xterm should close (it does). But what is the problem, that my command does not work? And please I don't want to find a solution like

String [] gggg = {"xterm", "-c", "multiple commands, with |, &&, ; etc"}; rt.exec(gggg); 

Because with a solution like this, I am not able to send further commands to the terminal. Many thanks in advance!