Skip to Content
Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
book

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
Content preview from Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

The new ProcessHandle interface

There are two new interfaces and also their implementations in Java 9 supporting the handling of operating system processes. One of them is ProcessHandle, the other one is ProcessHandle.Info, a nested interface of the prior.

A ProcessHandle object identifies an operating system process and provides methods to manage the process. In prior versions of Java, this was possible only using operating system specific methods using the PID to identify the process. The major problem with this approach is that the PID is unique only while the process is active. When a process finishes, the operating system is free to reuse the PID for a new process. When we know only the PID of a process and check to see if the process ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Java 9 High Performance

Java 9 High Performance

Mayur Ramgir, Nick Samoylov
Distributed Computing in Java 9

Distributed Computing in Java 9

Raja Malleswara Rao Malleswara Rao Pattamsetti

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781788832823Supplemental ContentOtherPurchase LinkErrata Page