As Matt said, I originally tried to use WatchService. I don’t remember the details now but do remember that during development I got frustrated with it and decided it was more trouble than it was worth.
Ralph > On Apr 12, 2018, at 10:06 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:25 AM, Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm not sure if it was ever fixed, but I remember that WatchService works >> terribly on macOS for some reason (it's really laggy or something). >> > > This would be JVM and JRE vendor dependent though. > > Gary > > >> >> On 12 April 2018 at 11:24, Remko Popma <remko.po...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I remember Ralph looked at it but concluded it wasn’t fit for purpose. I >>> forget the details but it’s on the mailing list somewhere. >>> >>> Remko >>> >>> (Shameless plug) Every java main() method deserves http://picocli.info >>> >>>> On Apr 13, 2018, at 0:10, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi All: >>>> >>>> Our WatchManager pools on a thread to watch files. >>>> >>>> Is there any reason why we are not using Java 7's WatchService? >>>> >>>> Yes, I know it only watches folders and not files but I consider that a >>>> detail ;-) >>>> >>>> Gary >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> >>
