How to do graceful shutdown/termination of java processes?

Question

I am running some java apps and I need to shutdown/close all apps gracefully from windows bat script. So my question is:
How to invoke shutdown hook by windows bat script and gracefully shutdown java program.

Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Take a look at the addShutdownHook method in the Runtime class.

Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(...);

UPDATE: As per comment below, there is a command TASKKILL in the windows shell that is similar to the *nix kill command. For instance TASKKILL /IM java.exe would terminate all java processes. TASKLIST can be used to find all running processes. Using this in conjunction with a shutdownhook should give you the graceful possibilites required.