There already is commons-jci-fam.

Given these two facts I am not sure it makes sense to include in IO 2.0.

cheers
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Torsten

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 22:40, Michael Wooten<mwooten....@gmail.com> wrote:
> What version of Java will IO 2.0 be targeting? As I understand it, the next
> version will target Java 5 compatibility, in which case the file monitoring
> functionality may be beneficial to users who will not be transitioning to
> Java 7 soon. I personally think this would be great functionality and would
> like to see it retained/included.
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Niall Pemberton <niall.pember...@gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>> In JDK 1.7 the new NIO2 changes include a new "Watch Service" which is
>> hooked into the underlying operating system's events (where possible):
>>
>> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/notification.html
>>
>> I added some File Listener/Monitor stuff added a year or so ago, but
>> it hasn't yet been released as part of Commons IO:
>>
>> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-132
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/monitor/
>>
>> In light of whats going to be coming in the JDK I'm think we should
>> remove what we have atm in Commons IO. Anyone have any
>> objections/thoughts to me doing this?
>>
>> Niall
>>
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