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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Process handling API

In prior versions of Java, developers interacting with native operating system processes had to use a fairly limited API, with some operations requiring resorting to native code. As part of Java Enhancement Proposal (JEP) 102, the Java process API was extended with the following features (quoting from the JEP text):

  • The ability to get the pid (or equivalent) of the current Java virtual machine and the pid of processes created with the existing API.
  • The ability to enumerate processes on the system. Information on each process may include its pid, name, state, and perhaps resource usage.
  • The ability to deal with process trees; in particular, some means to destroy a process tree.
  • The ability to deal with hundreds of subprocesses, ...
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