Hello Supriya
To my knowledge there is no way of killing a process by ID from Java - it's not available as part of the API. Perhaps Sun have done this deliberately as it's a potential security risk - that would make sense. A cleaner way to kill off a process is to get it to shut itself down by issuing a command remotely. You could start a JMX container inside the JVM you launch and then issue a shutdown command to it. This is how JBoss can be shut down, for example. It's very easy to set this sort of thing up using the Spring framework. The only drawback to this is that you'll need a unique port per process and technically anyone who connects to your server could shut it down - it's a security hazard. Again Spring has lots of facilities in it to secure and authenticate your connection should you want to do this to production quality. In our system we basically have a peer server which all of the other servers register with by name. If you want to shut a server down you run a client which logs on to the peer and then tells the server via the peer to shut down. Tim Gordon Allustra Limited Paxton House 30 Artillery Lane London E1 7LS Tel +44 (0)20 7539 5722 Fax +44 (0)20 7539 5732 http://www.allustra.com/ _____ From: supriya sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 February 2007 10:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Getting the process id of a process started by ANT Hi Tim, I found an issue raised by you in Apache Ant forum which states that : "I've written an ANT script which launches some processes - is there a platform-independent way to get the process id of those processes as they're launched - I need a way of killing them off ." Even I am having the same issue. I am starting certain executables from Ant but dont know how to kill them after the task is over. I thought may be you have got the answer to my query.It will be really nice of you if you can help. Thanks Supriya Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
