How to give the java process a name in the operating system (other than java)

Question

I\'m playing around with some microservices and running them on my laptop, simply assigning each micro-service a new port. The problem is that I\'d like to restart one of th

Answer 1

Under Windows, you can't (unless installing some kind of posix subsystem).

Under Linux, you could use exec command with the -a "newName" option to alias the process you wish to spawn.

Like

exec -a "myJar" /path/to/java -jar /path/to/jar.jar

Answer 2

If you need to be able to differentiate between different java programs you can use the jps command that gives you a list of all java processes and running your program with

java -Dname=myFirstService -cp  myFirstService.jar some.client.main.MyFirstService

then if you do a:

jps -v

You will see your process correctly.

If you need to change the process name at the OS level I recommend you use http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/