Z W wrote:
Oliver I thought about that but it wouldn't solve the problem because I don't know when exactly the process dies
What you're effectively trying to do here is monitor remote processes; you've jump from build time to run time/management problems.
More subtly, its not enough to check that the process is present, you need to be sure it is *alive*. If you can monitor the external side effect of a process (http get, telnet to a port, make a JDBC call) then you can see if a system is actually alive as far as an outside caller is concerned. This is the best thing you can do.
Now, I work full time on deploying and managing very large/complex/high availability systems; the core runtime we use is freely (i.e. LPGL) available at http://smartfrog.org/ / SmartFrog is not a build tool, its there to configure and coordinate big systems.
I think it sounds like your project is reaching the stage where it needs this kind of tool...
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