How to reboot the JVM under windows

Question

How do I restart the whole JVM in our Windows Server which have JRE, without restarting the OS?

Is there something like:

java -restart

Or this is not possible. The idea is that I added tool.jar in /lib/ext folder of the JRE and that I need to restart the JVM.

Answer 1

The Java process runs on demand as and when you want to run it. It's not a daemon. You need to stop the Java process manually (kill it) if it doesn't end gracefully.