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Reputation: 359

What is the name of process of Eclipse in Windows?

When I start Eclipse in Windows, in task manager under processes I see eclipse.exe and javaw.exe processes.

Which is the actual process belong to Eclipse?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2177

Answers (3)

Michał Grzejszczak
Michał Grzejszczak

Reputation: 2617

In short: both.

Eclipse is a product written in Java, so it requires Java VM to run. For convenience Eclipse installation contains its own native loader (eclipse.exe), which is a program that searches for a JVM library to use. The loader can either load JVM dynamically into its own process, which results in single process being visible in task manager, or it can start Java's native launcher javaw.exe and runs Eclipse within it.

I believe that by default it will use extra javaw.exe process, but you can configure it to load the library dynamically (I like that, beacuse my process view is a bit clearer). In order to do that, you need to provide a path for the jvm.dll that you want to use. In eclipse.ini file, that is located next to eclipse.exe add

-vm
path_to_jdk\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

(you can also use plain JRE). On my system it is in C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll. You can also pass this as arguments for eclipse.exe.

eclipse.exe -vm "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll"

Upvotes: 4

user2818782
user2818782

Reputation: 756

In Task Manager, in the Applications tab, if you right-click on Eclipse and select Go To Process it will show you what process belongs to Eclipse. Which is javaw.exe

Upvotes: 3

flafoux
flafoux

Reputation: 2110

eclipse.exe is the application itself, javaw.exe is the jvm that runs eclipse.exe. If you terminate javaw.exe it will terminate eclipse.exe also.

Upvotes: 1

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