Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileWriter; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class Main { public static String getMotherboardSN() { String result = ""; try { File file = File.createTempFile("realhowto", ".vbs"); file.deleteOnExit(); FileWriter fw = new java.io.FileWriter(file); String vbs = "Set objWMIService = GetObject(\"winmgmts:\\\\.\\root\\cimv2\")\n" + "Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _ \n" + " (\"Select * from Win32_BaseBoard\") \n" + "For Each objItem in colItems \n" + " Wscript.Echo objItem.SerialNumber \n" + " exit for ' do the first cpu only! \n" + "Next \n"; fw.write(vbs); fw.close(); Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cscript //NoLogo " + file.getPath()); BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream())); String line; while ((line = input.readLine()) != null) { result += line; } input.close(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } return result.trim(); } }