Paul J. Lucas wrote:
>Hearing all the options would be nice.
On Mac OS X:
a) Use the fslogger command (google 'fslogger'; requires 10.4+).
b) Write JNI code for FNNotify/FNSubscribe API
<http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?FileSystemNotifications>
c) See if NSWorkspace's methods work (Cocoa-Java).
d) Use platform-neutral Java code.
On W/XP:
a) Write native code. I dunno what API. Ask on a Windows list.
b) Use platform-neutral Java code.
Plaform-neutral Java:
Write a class that periodically checks a dir's mod-date, and sends an
event to registered listeners. Also write a class in the same pattern that
periodically does a File.listRoots() and sends an event on changes (needed
for Windows, not for Mac OS X).
Upside:
simple strategy
Downside:
requires that changes (add, del, rename) actually affect dir's mod-date.
hits FS regularly (mitigated by FS caching)
may degrade if watching lots of files at once, or recursively
etc.
-- GG
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