Java And Task Manager

[My220x]

Does anyone know what the Java code would be to check taskmanager to see if an application is open and if not start it? I have Googled but could not find anything.

[rob_f]

The proper way to do it would be to use JNI to interface with Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

List currently running processes (Windows) - Real's Java How-to offers a way by capturing the stdout of tasklist.exe, a command-line variant of taskmgr.

hth