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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)

Enumerating live processes in the system


In Windows, you open the Windows Task Manager to view the processes currently active, and in Linux you use the ps command with its varied options to view the processes along with other details, such as user, time spent, command, and so on.

In Java 9, a new API was added, called ProcessHandle, which deals with controlling and getting information about the processes. One of the methods of the API is allProcesses(), which returns a snapshot of all the processes visible to the current process. In this recipe, we will look at how the method works and what information we can extract from the API.

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Use the allProcesses() method on the ProcessHandle interface to get a stream of the currently active processes:
         Stream<ProcessHandle> liveProcesses = 
                       ProcessHandle.allProcesses();
  1. Iterate over the stream using forEach(), and pass a lambda expression to print the details available:
         liveProcesses...