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Can anyone share a code snippet written in java that takes the name of
a Windows NT service and returns the status of the service? Running,
Paused, Stopped, etc.

TIA,
Matt

The House Dawg wrote:
> Can anyone share a code snippet written in java that takes the name of
> a Windows NT service and returns the status of the service? Running,
> Paused, Stopped, etc.
>
> TIA,
> Matt

Folks,

There's probably a million ways to do this, but I found the following
works well:

bool isServiceStopped ( String serviceName ) throws Exception
{
boolean serviceStopped = false;

/************************************************** **********
* Construct the command, putting quotes around the service *
* name in case the service name contains any blanks. *
************************************************** **********/
String command = "sc query " + "\"" + serviceName + "\"";

/************************************************** ***************
* Execute the command and get a buffered reader for the output. *
************************************************** ***************/
Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime ( ).exec ( command );
InputStream is = proc.getInputStream ( );
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader ( new InputStreamReader (
is ) );
String line = null;


/************************************************** *******************************
* Read the command output until the STATE token is found or EOF is
encountered. *

************************************************** *******************************/
while ( ( line = br.readLine ( ) ) != null )
{
/********************************************
* Check if the STATE token has been found. *
********************************************/
if ( line.indexOf ( "STATE" ) > 0 )
{
/******************************************
* Check if the service STATE is STOPPED. *
******************************************/
if ( line.indexOf ( "STOPPED" ) > 0 )
{
serviceStopped = true;
}
break;
}
}
proc.waitFor ( );

/*****************************
* Cleanup system resources. *
*****************************/
is.close ( );
br.close ( );

return ( serviceStopped );

}