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shankar:

thanks.  you are right, of course, about the Windows API.  i let myself 
get a bit too terse in my question, which was about performing a task in 
Java that i used to perform in C++ via the mentioned Windows API calls. 
  This got contracted into a mention of non-existent "C++" calls.

i guess your comment about the JNI wrapper is the "right" answer to my 
somewhat screwed up question.  the utility i need is one that would only 
run on windows, because it is meant to support a 3rd-party program that 
only runs under windows.  even so, i'd rather do it in a way that was 
more generic.  in C, i'd probably just traverse directories doing stat() 
calls and looking at timestamps, but i don't know java enough to know 
its file system features yet, so i'll have to look into a rough 
equivalent to this C library call.

thanks for your reply.


Shankar Unni wrote:

> gary wrote:
> 
>> now, i'm wondering if there is a java API equivalent to the Visual C++ 
>> "FindFirstChangeNotification() / FindNextChangeNotification()", 
> 
> 
> This is not a "Visual C++", or even a "C++" feature - it's a Windows OS 
> feature. And no, there's nothing like that in Java.
> 
> Java generally doesn't include features that are found only in a single 
> OS, and are extremely specific to that OS implementation (like the 
> Windows ChangeNotification APIs, etc.).
> 
> If you really need to use extremely Windows-specific features, write a 
> JNI wrapper, and call that. Your program will then only run on Windows, 
> but that's apparently what you want, so that's OK..