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I would like to check whether a jar of mine is running on the users system, to then relaunch if it is closed.

I am aware of the command jps -l which makes it possible to check the current running jars. Only problem is that for that line to work, it requires the user to have a JDK installed. So I was then wondering whether or not there is an equivalent to the jps -l line, which doesn't need a JDK or anything, but just checks whether a specific jar is running.

In the past I have also used the line cmd /c tasklist for Windows and the line top -F -R -o cpu for Mac. To check whether an app or exe was running, but that doesn't really seem to be working. When running the tasklist line on Windows and I then check for an exe called "myApp", it doesn't find it. Even though it might be running. Otherwise this would have been a perfect method, to check for a running app, exe or jar.

Here is an example code of how I tried to use the tasklist command to check for a specific executable. 

try { String procss; Process pRun = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c tasklist"); BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pRun.getInputStream())); while ((procss = input.readLine()) != null) { if(!procss.contains("myApp")) { //Runtime command to launch exe or app. } } input.close(); } catch (Exception err) { err.printStackTrace(); }

Basically I would like to just edit the code above, to have a command line, of which is able to actually check whether the exe, app or jar is running. Maybe there is an alternative to cmd /c tasklist and top -F -R -o cpu, which is able to get all processes running on a pc and not just .exe or .app

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On windows, you could use the wmic command to get the command line parameters a program was launched with.

For example, using wmic process where "name like '%java%'" get commandline,processid (basically just means "get the PID and command line arguments of process with a name like java") gives me this output for a test program:

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"C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_111\bin\javaw.exe" -jar "A:\Programmering\Java\Pong\out\artifacts\Pong_jar\Pong.jar"

As you can see, you can get the location of the jar file which is running (which you could then use to check if it's your program). In this case, I just launched it by double clicking the jar file, you may get different outputs if you launch it in a different way, but there should always be something you can use to identify the java process (like a main class or jar file).

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You input is very much appreciated, I am going to take a look at it and try to work it into my code. I was wondering whether you know a similar method for Mac as well? My program will be running on both Windows and Mac.
I'm not much of a mac guy, but a quick google search brought up this. Might be something to try?stackoverflow.com/questions/821837/…
Thank you very much, your own command method worked perfectly for Windows and for Mac I managed to create a workaround using the link you provided.