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

Solution 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);
 }
}

Solution 2:

You can use command line windows tools tasklist and taskkill and call them from Java using Runtime.exec().

Solution 3:

Here's a groovy way of doing it:

final Process jpsProcess = "cmd /c jps".execute()
final BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(jpsProcess.getInputStream()));
def jarFileName = "FileName.jar"
def processId = null
reader.eachLine {
    if (it.contains(jarFileName)) {
        def args = it.split(" ")
        if (processId != null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Multiple processes found executing ${jarFileName} ids: ${processId} and ${args[0]}")
        } else {
            processId = args[0]
        }
    }
}
if (processId != null) {
    def killCommand = "cmd /c TASKKILL /F /PID ${processId}"
    def killProcess = killCommand.execute()
    def stdout = new StringBuilder()
    def stderr = new StringBuilder()
    killProcess.consumeProcessOutput(stdout, stderr)
    println(killCommand)
    def errorOutput = stderr.toString()
    if (!errorOutput.empty) {
        println(errorOutput)
    }
    def stdOutput = stdout.toString()
    if (!stdOutput.empty) {
        println(stdOutput)
    }
    killProcess.waitFor()
} else {
    System.err.println("Could not find process for jar ${jarFileName}")
}

Solution 4:

There is a little API providing the desired functionality:

https://github.com/kohsuke/winp

Windows Process Library