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Determining location of JVM executable during runtime

Asked 2010-08-02T22:53:36.343
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How does one obtain the location of the executable of the currently running JVM during runtime? I would like to instantiate another JVM as a subprocess using the ProcessBuilder class.

I am aware that there is the java.home System property, but this doesn't specify the location of the JVM executable. I understand I could do something like this to get the path:

System.getProperties().getProperty("java.home") + File.pathSeparator + "bin" + File.pathSeparator + "java"

This code isn't platform independent, because the Windows executable's name is java.exe, not java. Is there a way to get the path of the JVM executable that takes the platform's idiosyncrasies into account?

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You are trying to fork the entire JVM.

  1. That is extremely inefficient, mainly because of the heaviness of yet another java process. If your heavily doing this, then your program is going to be really slow
  2. Threads exist for this very reason

But if you really must, you can try just executing java -arguments directly, since most standard java installations put java on the cli path.

answered 2010-08-03T02:26:49.353

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