Detect if Java is being used

Question

Hi,

How can I tell if any application is using Java? Is always created a process java.exe or javaw.exe? Could it be hidden in another process and be hard to detect? I'm using platform 1E to detect Java usage, but it will only detect explicit processes.

The thing is I want to uninstall unused java installations on devices, but I wanna be sure they're not using Java.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If they use the installed Java Runtime they will spawn the javaw.exe process. If they bring their own runtime (as in the app folder) they still spawn the process just from another path.

If the runtime is truly embeeded you will not see it. But you don't care about those cases as they are not dependent on you having Java installed in the first place.