Prior to Java 9, we did not have the means to obtain a list of active processes. With Java 9 it is now possible to get the processes in a stream. There are three methods that return a Stream<ProcessHandle>. One lists the child processes. The other lists all the descendants; the children and the children of those recursively. The third lists all the processes.
Listing processes
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