Get MS-Windows Installed Applications from Java

Question

Is it possible to get a list of installed applications (like the list from the un-install programs) from a windows vista computer with java?

Answer 1

If you mean installed applications I don't think it's possible by directly using Java SDK (also because it's not a cross platform requirement).. what I think you can do is to use an external native API to interact with windows registry (like jRegistryKey) and retrieve the information you need..

Instead if you want to get all the running applications from a Java program you could parse tasklist.exe output as explained here.