Tweet This post is going to cover using the Guava EventBus to publish changes to a directory or sub-directories detected by the Java 7 WatchService. The Guava EventBus is a great way to add publish/subscribe communication to an application. The WatchService, new in the Java 7 java.nio.file package, is used to monitor a directory for [...]
Event Programming Example: Google Guava EventBus and Java 7 WatchService
February 24, 2012 by 2 Comments
What’s New in Java 7: WatchService
February 24, 2012 by 1 Comment
Tweet Of all the new features in Java 7, one of the more interesting is the WatchService, adding the capability to watch a directory for changes. The WatchService maps directly to the native file event notification mechanism, if available. If a native event notification mechanism is not available, then the default implementation will use polling. [...]
Creating An Asynchronous, Recursive DirectoryStream in Java 7
February 10, 2012 by 4 Comments
Tweet Continuing with my series on the Java 7 java.nio.file package, this time covering the DirectoryStream interface. In this post we are going implement our own DirectoryStream that will iterate over the files in an entire directory tree, not just a single directory. Our goal in the end is to have something that works similar [...]
