Restart4j

Library for restarting your JVM application. You will most likely use it for restarting your GUI application programmatically.

It works no matter how your application is running:

• From Jar
• From an IDE
• From a unique packaged form
• etc...

Requirements, Compatibility

• Java 8 or higher
• Works on the 3 major platforms: Windows, MacOS, Linux

Installation

Maven example

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.Dansoftowner</groupId>
    <artifactId>Restart4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.7</version>
</dependency>

Gradle example

repositories {
    ...
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.Dansoftowner:Restart4j:1.4.7'
}

Some code examples

Simple restart

final ApplicationRestart appRestart = ApplicationRestart.builder().build();
appRestart.restartApp();

Restart with more options

final ApplicationRestart appRestart = ApplicationRestart.builder()
        .beforeNewProcessCreated(() -> System.out.println("New process will be created..."))
        .beforeCurrentProcessTerminated(() -> System.out.println("The app will be terminated"))
        .build();
appRestart.restartApp();

Demo applications

Two demo applications can be found in the project:

• SimpleDemo
• ComplexDemo

Projects using Restart4j

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Used libraries

• SLF4j - Simple Logging Facade for java
• OSHI - Operating System & Hardware information
• Jetbrains annotations - Annotations for JVM-based languages