running JBOSS in the forground and get it to ouput it's PID

[egandt]

I need to keep JBOSS running as a foreground task and yet allow for a third party product to find th JBOSS_PID and kill it if needed. I'm looking for how to get JBOSS (both on Unix and Windows) to output the pid of the actual java process spawned by running run.sh(bat). Is this possible, if so how?


Thanks,
ERIC

[jaikiran]

This may not exactly be what you are looking for. Starting Java 5, there's a tool which Sun provides for listing the instrumented HotSpot Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) on the target system.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/share/jps.html. But this becomes tricky if there are multiple java processes running, in which case you wont be able to identify which pid belongs to the JBoss instance.

[jaikiran]

Also, that documentation mentions:

NOTE: This utility is unsupported and may not be available in future versions of the JDK. It is not currently available on Windows 98 and Windows ME platforms.

So does not look like a good option to use.