Killing Java Process from Ant in Windows

I was trying to test my web service client using soapUI mockservice runner fired by ANT before TestNG suite and your solution is working perfectly fine! I saved a lot of time. Thanks a lot!!!

Can you please suggest how to run the same for firefox?
as i want to kill a particular firefox tab not all.

Thanks in advance!

–Krsna

@Krsna : Since firefox runs as a single process, you can’t kill individual tab. Mozilla though have planned to implement it for future version. More at – https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_Processes

Thanks shiv for your reply.
But can we do it for IE?
as i have a client requirement and after executing some job in browser i want to close it. IE would also work.

Awaiting your reply!

In IE also till IE8 [http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/11/ie8-and-loosely-coupled-ie-lcie.aspx] you can’t kill individual tabs. IE8 still I am not sure since I have not tried it out.

If you want to kill the entire browser session, it should be similar to the way I had done above. Instead of “jps” you can use “tasklist” command which comes with Windows to find the PID of a process and then use “pskill” to kill it.

I’ve bumped to this blog entry and I would like to say thanks and to add the following: If you want to avoid pskill installation you can use taskkill command (change lines 17-19 to:

Ups, my code was stripped out. It should say (change regular brackets with less than and greater than):

(exec executable=”taskkill”)
(arg value=”/pid” /)
(arg value=”$CURLY_OPENpid.outCURLY_CLOSED” /)
(/exec)

Good idea!

But if on one computer started many tomcats I’m using

jps.exe -mlvV

and parse result

var token = self.getToken();
var spacePos = token.indexOf(” “);
var tomcatDir = project.getProperty(“tomcat.dir”);

// preparing to single format
tomcatDir = tomcatDir.replace(“/”, “\\”);
token = token.replace(“/”, “\\”);

//print(“tomcatDir: ” + tomcatDir);
//print(“token: ” + token);

if (spacePos != -1) {
if (token.contains(tomcatDir)) {
//print(“spacePos: ” + spacePos);
var pid = token.substring(0, spacePos);

print(“pid for ‘” + tomcatDir + “‘: ” + pid);

self.setToken(pid);
} else {
self.setToken(null);
}
} else {
self.setToken(null);
}

Killing Tomcat (${tomcat.dir}) instance with PID – “${pid.out}”

where ant property
tomcat.dir=c:/apps/apache-tomcat-6.0.29

<target name=”tomcat.stop”>
<touch file=”${tomcat.pid.tmp.file}”/>
<!–print java processes–>
<exec executable=”jps.exe” dir=”${env.JAVA_HOME}/bin” output=”${tomcat.pid.tmp.file}”>
<arg line=”-mlvV”/>
</exec>

<!–getting single for project Tomcat Process ID–>
<loadfile srcfile=”${tomcat.pid.tmp.file}” property=”pid.out”>
<filterchain>
<linecontains>
<contains value=”Bootstrap”/>
</linecontains>
<tokenfilter>
<scriptfilter language=”javascript”>
var token = self.getToken();
var spacePos = token.indexOf(” “);
var tomcatDir = project.getProperty(“tomcat.dir”);

// preparing to single format
tomcatDir = tomcatDir.replace(“/”, “\\”);
token = token.replace(“/”, “\\”);

//print(“tomcatDir: ” + tomcatDir);
//print(“token: ” + token);

if (spacePos != -1) {
if (token.contains(tomcatDir)) {
//print(“spacePos: ” + spacePos);
var pid = token.substring(0, spacePos);

print(“pid for ‘” + tomcatDir + “‘: ” + pid);

self.setToken(pid);
} else {
self.setToken(null);
}
} else {
self.setToken(null);
}
</scriptfilter>
<trim/>
<ignoreblank/>
</tokenfilter>
<striplinebreaks/>
</filterchain>
</loadfile>
<echo>Killing Tomcat (${tomcat.dir}) instance with PID – “${pid.out}”</echo>
<exec executable=”${pskill.path}/pskill.exe” spawn=”true” dir=”${pskill.path}”>
<arg value=”${pid.out}”/>
</exec>
</target>

Excellent solution, was looking for this one. Thank you so much.