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Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla
Book Image

Java 11 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Nick Samoylov, Mohamed Sanaulla

Overview of this book

For more than three decades, Java has been on the forefront of developing robust software that has helped versatile businesses meet their requirements. Being one of the most widely used programming languages in history, it’s imperative for Java developers to discover effective ways of using it in order to take full advantage of the power of the latest Java features. Java 11 Cookbook offers a range of software development solutions with simple and straightforward Java 11 code examples to help you build a modern software system. Starting with the installation of Java, each recipe addresses various problem by explaining the solution and offering insights into how it works. You’ll explore the new features added to Java 11 that will make your application modular, secure, and fast. The book contains recipes on functional programming, GUI programming, concurrent programming, and database programming in Java. You’ll also be taken through the new features introduced in JDK 18.3 and 18.9. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills required to write robust, scalable, and optimal Java code effectively.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Managing the spawned process


There are a few methods, such as destroy(), destroyForcibly() (added in Java 8), isAlive() (added in Java 8), and supportsNormalTermination() (added in Java 9), which can be used to control the process spawned. These methods are available on the Process object as well as on the ProcessHandle object. Here, controlling would be just to check whether the process is alive, and if it is, then destroy the process. 

In this recipe, we will spawn a long-running process and do the following:

  • Check for its liveliness
  • Check whether it can be stopped normally; that is, depending on the platform, the process has to be stopped by just using destroy or by using force destroy
  • Stop the process

How to do it...

  1. Spawn a new process from the Java code, which runs the sleep command for, say, one minute, or 60 seconds:
        ProcessBuilder pBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("sleep", "60");
        Process p = pBuilder.inheritIO().start();
  1. Wait for, say, 10 seconds:
p.waitFor(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS...