How can I see the software installed in a Mac OS using a java application?

Im writting a program that lists all the software installed in my mac. Where can I find t开发者_运维问答hat information? Thank you

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You can call lsregister -dump to get a list of all applications registered with Launch Services. The output will need to be parsed, though; each record has a path property that lists the full path to the application.

A simpler way would just be to scan /Applications for all .app bundles, as well as ~/Applications for each user. That method wouldn't be guaranteed to get all applications, but it would be a pretty good start.

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Open a terminal window and type ps -ef | grep 'java'

ps displays information about a selection of the active processes. ps -ef sees every process on the system using standard syntax. The pipe (|) sends the results to grep which allows you to search one file or multiple files for lines that contain a pattern. In this case the pattern is the word 'java'.

I've put this into an alias in my startup script so I can go it quickly.