JDK Tools – jps ( Java Process Tool )

Java Process Tool is an amazing JDK tool to check the details of java process on local or remote machines. It can be a very useful tool in the tool belt of a developer.

By default, it shows the PID and short name of class.

We can also check the full package name of the applications’ main class using -l argument.

Checking Application Arguments

jps can provide the arguments passed to the main method of the application as well as the arguments to JVM through -m and -v arguments respectively.

Piping with other tools

Surely, it can be used with other useful tools in MAC. Here we are using the output of jps with grep to filter.

Further Details

Further details about the tool can be found at oracle.

jps @ oracle