Relative Path being changed when executing from a Thread - java

I'm making a web application that, at a certain point, starts a new thread and this thread executes a jar file from command line.
The command line jar works fine when called from outside the application, but when i call it from the thread the relative path becomes C:\eclipse\ (i'm running the application from Eclipse) instead of the directory it's stored in, which messes up with its configuration since it looks for files in the wrong place.
The jar creates a log file, whenever i try to call it i have this line written in the log: "10/04/2012 17:09:03 - java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\eclipse\descriptors\analysis_engine\AggregateAE.xml"
The jar is not inside C:\eclipse. When i call it from prompt i have no problems, but when it's called from a new spawned thread i have this error. I've tried it on a production environment and i have the same problem (this time the base path is the server's one)
Considering that i can't modify all the paths, what could be a solution to this problem?
EDIT: this is the thread class that calls the jar
public class UimaThread extends Thread {
private int mode=0;
private String path;
public UimaThread(int mode, String path){
this.mode=mode;
this.path=path;
}
public void run() {
Runtime run = Runtime.getRuntime();
try {
Properties config = ConfigLoader.getConfig();
String uimaPath=config.getProperty("uimaPath")+ControlPanelUtils.getDelimiter(config.getProperty("uimaPath"));
//uimaPath is the absolute path to the jar file, mode and path are just arguments passed to the jar
run.exec("java -jar "+uimaPath+"uimachainfull.jar "+mode+" "+path);
}
}
The code running this is:
public void startUima() throws IOException, ServletException {
Properties config = ConfigLoader.getConfig();
UimaThread uimaThread = new UimaThread(2, config.getProperty("docPath"));
uimaThread.start();
}
I need this to be executed asyncronously and outside the server, i've asked how to do that here in stackoverflow and i've been told to do so: Calling an application from a web server asynchronously

I've discovered how to do it, instead of using exec(String command) i had to use exec(String command, String[] envp, File dir) and the last argument (dir) is the working directory that can be passed as new argument

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[EDIT]
I came to the conclution that is some code on my Program class giving error. Basicly only runs with "clean" main. At eclipse, Program class is importing some libraries that are inside a jar file. Don't I need to reference it in ProcessBuilder? If so, how?
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