Retrieve information about a BlackBerry Java Application

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Import the following classes:
- net.rim.device.api.system.ApplicationManager
- net.rim.device.api.system.ApplicationDescriptor
- java.lang.String
- net.rim.device.api.system.

To retrieve information about the processes that are running, invoke ApplicationManager.getVisibleApplications().

ApplicationManager manager = ApplicationManager.getApplicationManager();
ApplicationDescriptor descriptors[] = manager.getVisibleApplications();

To retrieve descriptions of the objects for the BlackBerry® device applications that are running, invoke ApplicationDescriptor.getName().
```
String appname1 = descriptors[0].getName();
```
To retrieve a description of the current BlackBerry device application, invoke ApplicationDescriptor.currentApplicationDescriptor()
```
ApplicationDescriptor descriptor = ApplicationDescriptor.currentApplicationDescriptor();
```

Parent topic: Application manager