Good Java Process Control Library

Question

Java process control is notoriously bad - primarily due to inadequate support by the Java VM/JDK classes (e.g. java.lang.Process).

I am wondering, are there any good open source libraries out there that are reliable.

The requirements would be:

1. OSS
2. Start/Stop processes
3. Manage STDIN and STDOUT
4. cross platform (at least Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP, and IBM in that order)
5. (optional) restartable
6. (desirable) mature

Answer 1

Java Service Wrapper might be what you're looking for. It's cross-platform, can be used to start things as a Windows service, capture IO, and generally completely manage any java app. It's very light weight and well designed. Atlassian uses it to wrap their products (Jira, Bamboo, etc), so it's battle tested.