Monitoring Directory or File for any changes

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3 total messages Started by Eric Orilla Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:38

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Author: Eric Orilla
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:38

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Hi there!
Is there any class/function in Java that can monitor certain directory and/or file for any changes? and if any change is detected an event is fired.

Thank you!

Re: Monitoring Directory or File for any changes

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Author: Kevin Dean [TeamB]
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:07

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Eric Orilla wrote:

> 
> Hi there!
> Is there any class/function in Java that can monitor certain
> directory and/or file for any changes? and if any change is detected
> an event is fired.
> 
> Thank you!

Not that I'm aware of.  That's an OS-specific function and is not
portable.

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Re: Monitoring Directory or File for any changes

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Author: Lori M Olson [TeamB]
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:35

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Eric Orilla wrote:

> Hi there! Is there any class/function in Java that can monitor
> certain directory and/or file for any changes? and if any change is
> detected an event is fired.
> 
> Thank you!

Not yet.  Some work going on in the JDIC project supports this, but is
only implemented for Mac OSX at the moment.

https://jdic.dev.java.net/
https://jdic.dev.java.net/nonav/incubator/misc/javadoc/

You might want to get on the forums there and ask.  Maybe someone is 
working on it now.

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