need help regarding win32 processes...

Greetings;

I need some help concerning win32 processes which are spawned from a JAVA application.

win32 processes can be easily spawned using Runtime...

...
String m_ProcessToExecute = "notepad.exe"; // for example
Process m_ThisProcess;

m_ThisProcess = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(m_ProcessToExecute);
...




My problem arises when I terminate the java app: I need to leave the processes I earlier invoked to run independently of the java app, and when I re-execute my java app, I must retrieve a reference to the previously invoked processes.

I tried serializing the Processes, but I get an exception about the Process object not being serializable. I need this to work without having to resort to JNI. Thanks in an advance to those of you who know how to do this!

Thanks,
Tabris