How to get the Process ID of running Java Program

[Nandu Arni]

How to get the Process ID of running Java Program from using Java Code. [e-mail]
[ February 11, 2003: Message edited by: Nandu Arni ]

[Pete Harris]

You can't, directly. The only possible way to do this would be to call

Runtime.exec("ps -ef");

and parse the output to work out the JVM's pid. This will only work on Unix, of course.