Java HotSpot Virtual Machine

Hi,

I am looking for a good/robust/high performance solution for invoking a local java component from a C application in Windows.

About Java component:
- It has multiple methods that would be called very frequently from C application
- It will reside in local machine. This machine may not have access to internet/LAN.

My preference is to implement this java component as indepent running exe and have C application make outprocess calls. Is this possible?

Any help/suggestions on this are greatly appreciated

Thanks,
-Arun