Re: [io] File Listener/Monitor

2009-08-22 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Michael Wooten 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 soo

Re: [io] File Listener/Monitor

2009-08-20 Thread Torsten Curdt
There already is commons-jci-fam. Given these two facts I am not sure it makes sense to include in IO 2.0. cheers -- Torsten On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 22:40, Michael Wooten wrote: > What version of Java will IO 2.0 be targeting? As I understand it, the next > version will target Java 5 compatibili

Re: [io] File Listener/Monitor

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Wooten
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 wou

[io] File Listener/Monitor

2009-08-19 Thread Niall Pemberton
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 b