On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM, 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.
I take your point but I'd rather not add something to IO that will be superseded by standard java API in 6 months. Niall > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
