How to find and kill running Win-Processes from within Java?

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private static final String TASKLIST = "tasklist";
private static final String KILL = "taskkill /F /IM ";

public static boolean isProcessRunning(String serviceName) throws Exception {

 Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(TASKLIST);
 BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
   p.getInputStream()));
 String line;
 while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {

  System.out.println(line);
  if (line.contains(serviceName)) {
   return true;
  }
 }

 return false;

}

public static void killProcess(String serviceName) throws Exception {

  Runtime.getRuntime().exec(KILL + serviceName);

 }

EXAMPLE:

public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
 String processName = "WINWORD.EXE";

 //System.out.print(isProcessRunning(processName));

 if (isProcessRunning(processName)) {

  killProcess(processName);
 }
}

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