activating a application that is in the bundle of a application

how do i activate a application that is in the bundle of my application?

if it has been run before (the app) you should just be able to use a


tell application "The Application" to activate

but if that doesnt work you could use some other command like


open alias "path:to:app:"

but i am unfamiluar with that so you may need to experiment

i have used activate application and i compiled when the application was open

 activate application "The Application"