How to find and kill running Win-Processes from within Java?

Question

I need a Java way to find a running Win process from which I know to name of the executable. I want to look whether it is running right now and I need a way to kill the process if I found it.

Answer 1

private static final String TASKLIST = "tasklist"; private static final String KILL = "taskkill /F /IM ";  public static boolean isProcessRunning(String serviceName) throws Exception {   Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(TASKLIST);  BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(    p.getInputStream()));  String line;  while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {    System.out.println(line);   if (line.contains(serviceName)) {    return true;   }  }   return false;  }  public static void killProcess(String serviceName) throws Exception {    Runtime.getRuntime().exec(KILL + serviceName);   } 

EXAMPLE:

public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {  String processName = "WINWORD.EXE";   //System.out.print(isProcessRunning(processName));   if (isProcessRunning(processName)) {    killProcess(processName);  } }