monitoring a directory

[mc kinzy]

hello every1,

i would like to monitor a directory, i.e. when it is opeaned, exited,
etc. i know i would have to create a thread for it, but can any1 help
me how to do it.

thanx in advance

mckinzy

 

[Roedy Green]

i would like to monitor a directory, i.e. when it is opeaned, exited,
etc. i know i would have to create a thread for it, but can any1 help
me how to do it.

there is no platform independent way to do this. So read up how you do
it in C++ on platform, then write some JNI glue to it.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jni.html

I am using a program called Copernic that does that. It is wonderful
the way it instantly indexes the files I have recently modified.

It is so much faster than Google Desktop and so much more accurate.

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/copernic.html

 

[Roedy Green]

i would like to monitor a directory, i.e. when it is opeaned, exited,
etc. i know i would have to create a thread for it, but can any1 help
me how to do it.

see the hints at http://mindprod.com/projects/filefinder.html

 

[Twisted]

there is no platform independent way to do this.

Yet. Change notification is planned as part of the new filesystem
interface classes in NIO2 in Java 7: http://tech.puredanger.com/java7#jsr203

 

[Stefan Hueneburg]

hi,

i would like to monitor a directory, i.e. when it is opeaned, exited,
etc. i know i would have to create a thread for it, but can any1 help
me how to do it.

Maybe you wanna take a look to Jnotify (http://jnotify.sourceforge.net/).

It seems to work on recent Linux and Windows using native Syscalls.

cu