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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)

Obtaining the process information of the spawned process


In our previous recipe, we saw how to get the process information for the current Java process. In this recipe, we will look at how to get the process information for a process spawned by the Java code; that is, by the current Java process. The APIs used will be the same as we saw in the previous recipe, except for the way the instance of ProcessHandle is implemented. 

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will make use of a Unix command, sleep, which is used to pause the execution for a period of time in seconds. 

How to do it...

Follow these steps:

  1. Spawn a new process from the Java code, which runs the sleep command:
        ProcessBuilder pBuilder = new ProcessBuilder("sleep", "20");
        Process p = pBuilder.inheritIO().start();
  1. Get the ProcessHandle instance for this spawned process:
        ProcessHandle handle = p.toHandle();
  1. Wait for the spawned process to complete execution:
        int exitValue = p.waitFor();
  1. Use ProcessHandle to get...