Exploring Java 9: Build Modularized Applications in Java

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Fu ChengExploring Java 9https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3330-6_5

5. The Process API

Fu Cheng¹ 

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Auckland, New Zealand

 

The Java Process API allows developers to create and manage native processes. You can now use the java.lang.ProcessBuilder from JDK 5 to create processes and redirect the output and error streams. The new interface java.lang.ProcessHandle in Java 9 allows you to control the native processes created by ProcessBuilder.start().

The ProcessHandle Interface

The fine-grained control provided by ProcessHandle is very useful for long-running processes. Table 5-1 shows the methods of ProcessHandle. With the ProcessHandle interface, you can query the information about the native process and control its life cycle.

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