6 Process API

The Process API lets you start, retrieve information about, and manage native operating system processes.

With this API, you can work with operating system processes as follows:

• Run arbitrary commands:

  • Filter running processes

  • Redirect output

  • Connect heterogeneous commands and shells by scheduling tasks to start when another ends

  • Clean up leftover processes

• Test the running of commands:

  • Run a series of tests

  • Log output

• Monitor commands:

  • Monitor long-running processes and restart them if they terminate

  • Collect usage statistics

Topics

• Process API Classes and Interfaces

• Creating a Process

• Getting Information About a Process

• Redirecting Output from a Process

• Filtering Processes with Streams

• Handling Processes When They Terminate with the onExit Method

• Controlling Access to Sensitive Process Information