You can use jps
$ jps -lm
3457 com.intellij.idea.Main
3524 org.jetbrains.idea.maven.server.RemoteMavenServer
12059 org.netbeans.Main --userdir /home/peter/.visualvm/7u14 --cachedir /home/peter/.cache/visualvm/7u14 --branding visualvm
12162 sun.tools.jps.Jps -lm
VisualVM is a replacement for jconsole.