Kill a java process using its Name and not PID

Question

In my java program I want to kill a process named "DummyBroker"(which is another java program). i could kill it using TaskKill but it needs PID of the process. So how can i fetch the pid for a specific java process and then kill it?

Answer 1

Finally found a easy solution here

jps - Java Virtual Machine Process Status Tool , can be used for killing a java process with its name.

for /f "tokens=1" %i in ('C:\java\jdk-7u45-windows-x64\bin\jps -m ^| find "DummyBroker"') do ( taskkill /F /PID %i )

We can add above in batch file and simply call the batch file from java program.