RE: Monitoring a file for changes from Java?

["James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> . . . But, changes made to the file from other sources won't fire your
listener because
> those other sources don't know anything about your listener.  The
> AS400File object doesn't have any sort of capability to sit on a file
> and watch for changes and then fire your listener.

I see. Seems rather silly to have a change listener that only listens for
changes its own program makes.

At any rate, since the ultimate goal is to monitor an event file for
business integration, and I'll have full control over the process of
adding new events to the file, there's nothing stopping me from putting
something into a data queue (which I understand I CAN monitor) whenever I
do so. (Using a data queue AS the event file is another possibility, but
one that opens up other cans of worms.)

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JHHL