Java 7 New Features Cookbook by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 2015-07-18T11:22:25.922571+00:00

Monitoring file events using WatchEvents

When an application needs to be aware of changes in a directory, a watch service can listen to the changes and then inform the application of these changes. The service will register a directory to be monitored based on the type of event that is of interest. When the event occurs, a watch event is queued and can subsequently be processed as dictated by the needs of the application.

Getting ready

To monitor a directory for events, we need to do the following:

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