How to get the PID of the current JVM
At work, I needed to get the PID of the current JVM to be able to pass it to another JVM, which then would shut it down. After some googling and a bunch of failed attempts I ended up with this:
private int getProcessId() {
String name = ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getName();
StringBuffer pid = new StringBuffer();
for (int i = 0, l = name.length(); i < l; i++) {
if (Character.isDigit(name.charAt(i))) {
pid.append(name.charAt(i));
} else if (pid.length() > 0) {
break;
}
}
try {
return Integer.parseInt(pid.toString());
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
return 0;
}
}The RuntimeMXBean is available from Java 5 and allows you to fetch the name of the running JVM. Unfortunately its output isn't specified in the documentation, but Sun's JVM seems to return the following processId@machineId (e.g., 5575@blanco-local) on both Windows, Linux and OS X. This output, we can simply parse to get hold of a PID and that's what's being done in the sample code above.
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