patrickdlogan <patrickdlo...@gmail.com> writes:

> Java has a file watch API to avoid polling.

I assume you're talking about the NIO 2 watch service?  That's not
yet in a released version of Java, it's coming in Java 7.

> Stuart Sierra uses it to good effect in lazytest.

It looks to me like lazytest polls the last modified date every 500 ms.

http://github.com/stuartsierra/lazytest/blob/master/modules/lazytest/src/main/clojure/lazytest/watch.clj

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