This Maven and Eclipse tutorial shows how to create simple and archetype Maven projects in the Eclipse IDE that can build, compile and install Java code.

Need to install the Eclipse IDE on Windows? This quick video tutorial shows you how to install Eclipse and build your very first Java application in the popular, open-source IDE.

Unfortunately there is no standard Java API to send a signal or even get the process ID of a System.Process. An enhancement request has been pending for years (since Java 1.2) to add this.