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Getting list of Operating System prosesses into Java Application

 
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I need to get all the currently executing processes into my java process. ( You can view those processes list if you go into task manager & selecing processes). But I need these list to be accessed from my java application . How can i do so...
 
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"Shailesh S.",

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Now about your problem. There are two ways:
1) use JNI; you will need native Windows functions CreateToolhelp32Snapshot, Process32First, Process32Next and CloseHandle, plus native structure ProcessEntry.

2) execute tasklist.exe (located in C:\WINDOWS\system32) using ProcessBuilder / Runtime.exec and parse the results. Check out "tasklist /?" for more options. Especially the "/FO CSV" can be useful to make it a bit easier to parse.
 
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I tried second way. It worked correctly. But this is a solution for Windows platform. Now if I want list of Processes on Linux/Unix platform in that is there any way?
 
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Execute "ps" instead of tasklist.exe. "ps --help" or "man ps" can help you out.

Unfortunately, there is no platform independent way to do this.
 
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System.getProperty("os.name") will tell you which OS your're dealing with, so you can implement both ways and the choose the appropriate one at runtime.
 
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