Kill a java process using its Name and not PID

Question

In my java program I want to kill a process named "DummyBroker"(which is another java program). i could kill it using TaskKill but it needs PID of the process. So how can i fetch the pid for a specific java process and then kill it?

Answer 1

You should take a look at this link : Killing a process using Java

And use something like :

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /F /IM <processname>.<extension>")

Otherwise you can maybe use a combinaison of tasklistand split to find the containing line and then find the PID.