Need a way to check status of Windows service programmatically

Question

Here is the situation:

I have been called upon to work with InstallAnywhere 8, a Java-based installer IDE, of sorts, that allows starting and stopping of windows ser

Answer 1

Simply call this method to check the status of service whether running or not.

public boolean checkIfServiceRunning(String serviceName) {
    Process process;
    try {
      process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("sc query " + serviceName);
      Scanner reader = new Scanner(process.getInputStream(), "UTF-8");
      while(reader.hasNextLine()) {
         if(reader.nextLine().contains("RUNNING")) {
           return true;
         }
      }
     } catch (IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
     }            
     return false;
}