title: Getting info about external processes in linux using JNA- Ptrace?
body: <p>I'm on a student research team currently working on a Java project in which we want to be able to gather some info about specific external programs in CentOS 7. Some potential examples of data we might want to gather would be the URL from firefox, or the coordinates from Google Earth. Thus far, looking into how to implement this has mostly led me to using JNA and ptrace.</p>
  
  <p>Is this a good route to take to tackle this problem? And if so, what can I use to find the location of specific information about the programs in memory?</p>