java windows applications

[michael modenese]

hi there. i have the following problem: i need my java application to check whether an other java application is allready running on my machine or not (...and then do a kind of autologin) is this possible ? on windows ? do i need some special dll's ?

thx

[Srinivasa Raghavan]

If you are looking single sign on applications then Check the following pages page1 and page2, this might be helpful.

[michael modenese]

...ok single sign on is what i thouth first., but i need to check whether an other java application is running or crashed.... something like a taskmanager monitor....

[Ulf Dittmer]

There might be a Windows equivalent of the Unix command "top" which lists the currently running processes. You could execute that using Runtime.exec and parse its output for the executable you're interested in.