How to check command line arguments of running Java virtual machine in HP-UX

Technote (FAQ)
Problem
HP-UX provides the ability to display command line arguments for running processes with ps -x -p PID by displaying processes in extended format.
Cause
Unable to display command line arguments for Java™ processes.
Solution
The following is the output of a ps -x -p PID for a Java process, ID 26611:

# ps -x -p 26611
PID TTY TIME COMMAND
26611 pts/ta 1:19 /opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/java/bin/PA_RISC2.0/java -Xboot
classpath/p:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/java/jre/lib/ext/ibmorb.jar:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/java/jre/lib/ext/ibmext.jar -Dwas.status.socket=51123 -classpath /
opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/properties:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/properties:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/lib/bootstrap.jar:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/lib/j2ee.jar:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/lib/lmproxy.jar:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/lib/urlprotocols.jar -Xms50m -Xmx256m -Dws.ext.dirs=/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/java/lib:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/classes:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/classes:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/lib:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/lib/ext:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/web/help:/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/deploytool/itp/plugins/com.ibm.etools.ejbdeploy/runtime -Dserver.root=/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer -Ddb2j.system.home=/opt/We
bSphere51/AppServer/cloudscape -Duser.install.root=/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer -Dcom.ibm.itp.location=/opt/WebSphere51/AppServer/bin -Dwas.install.root=/opt/WebSph

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Document Information

Product categories: Software, Application Servers, Distributed Application & Web Servers, WebSphere Application Server, Java SDK
Operating system(s): HPUX
Software version: 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0
Reference #: 1170605
IBM Group: Software Group
Modified date: 2004-06-01