I've tried to copy&paste a very small file into a folder which is observed by a watch service. The first time works great, but on all following copy&paste actions, i get an exception that a...

I'm trying to stop my thread where WatchService is working. But how to do that? My WatchService waiting for new update in folder there: key = watchService.take(); I start my Thread there: pri...

WatchService looks like a great technology but its been too slow to be useful on the OS X and Linux systems I've tested on. To add insult to injury, it doesn't seem to get notified of all events ei...

I am using a watch service to monitor a directory and fire logic on newly created files. One of the challenges that I've recently experienced is an overflow being triggered when a high volume of fi...

I've been trying a simple application of the WatchService in Java 7. It watches a directory for new files. It's running on Linux CentOS 6. I can copy a file to the watched directory and I get the f...

I'm using WatchService for synchronization data files with the application workbench. When I rename/move the watched directory I don't get any event nor the WatchKey won't become invalid. I still g...

I'm trying to use Java 7 and WatchService to monitor when folders are added to a folder (by being copied from a different location), then I want to act on the files within the newly created folder....

I'm encountering a recurrent issue in an application that tracks content of files within a directory, based on the Java 7 WatchService API. When the underlying file system fires a modification even...

WatchService sounded like an exciting idea ... unfortunately it seems to be as low-level as warned in the tutorial/api plus doesn't really fit into the Swing event model (or I'm missing something o...