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How to Get a List of Current Open Processes Java?
It is essential for the user to know about the processes that are running in their system, be it foreground or background. To do so in windows we have a task manager but internally it uses a program called tasklist. Tasklist aside from giving us the currently running processes, it also gives us details like process id, session name, session and memory usage of each process.
In this article we will see how we can get a list of currently open processes by using Java programming language.
Algorithm
Step 1 − Create a process that executes the tasklist.exe
Step 2 − Create a BufferedReader class that takes in the process object.
Step 3 − Use a while loop to read the process details line by line and print it out.
Syntax
To run the tasklist.exe located in our system32 folder, we need to call a process obj and then execute.
Following is the syntax to execute the tasklist.exe program using the method:
Process process_object = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(System.getenv("windir") + "\system32" + "tasklist.exe");
NoteThis program will not work on any online editor. To get the list of current open processes in your local system you need to run it on your local editor (Java IDE) only.
Approach: List All Active Processes Using tasklist.exe
In this approach, we call a process that executes tasklist.exe in the WIN32 folder. After that we read all active processes using BufferedReader and print it to console one by one.
Example
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// String variable to store process details
String processes;
// Execute tasklis.exe from win32
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(System.getenv("windir") + "\system32" + "tasklist.exe");
// Buffered reader to read from the process object
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(newInputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
// Prints all processes one by one
while ((processes = br.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println(processes);
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Output
Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ======== ================ =========== ============ System Idle Process 0 Services 0 8 K System 4 Services 0 9,416 K Registry 140 Services 0 30,420 K smss.exe 604 Services 0 1,076 K csrss.exe 976 Services 0 5,936 K csrss.exe 1112 Console 1 14,144 K winlogon.exe 1164 Console 1 11,704 K wininit.exe 1216 Services 0 6,628 K services.exe 1260 Services 0 9,804 K lsass.exe 1276 Services 0 27,360 K svchost.exe 1396 Services 0 1,388 K fontdrvhost.exe 1428 Console 1 6,608 K ...
In this article, we explored how to find the list of current open processes in Java.
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