[izpack-devel] Single Installer Instance

[Julien Ponge]

> I haven't done this with Java.  I know Eclipse and some other applications
> do this, but was wondering if there was an easy way to implement it.  My
> experience has been that each Java application blindly launches in a new JVM
> with no way to check in an OS neutral way whether an instance of the same
> application is already running.

How about a lock/pid file?