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| </p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="watchservice"></a>Java WatchService</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="watchservice.html#_remedy_2">Remedy</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>The JVM <a class="link" href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/WatchService.html" target="_top"><code class="literal">WatchService</code></a> is in place to monitor objects like a directory for changes, and then update it’s contents and notify the application of those changes. |
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| When a change is detected, the <code class="literal">WatchService</code> will enter a "quiet time" where it is waiting for the change (or changes) to be made and completed before notifying the application of the change.</p><p>Example: |
| A new war file is copied into <code class="literal">/webapps</code>. |
| The <code class="literal">WatchService</code> can (depending on implementation) see that the file was created (which is registered as an event!, and that its growing in size (another event). |
| With the quiet time, each of the events are gated behind that timeout before the aggregated events are sent to the application.</p><p>While some operating systems such as Windows have a native value for this quiet time, not all do, notably OSX. |
| At the core this is a limitation of the JVM’s FileSystem-specific implementation, but one that has been raised to the <a class="link" href="https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-7133447" target="_top">attention of the project.</a></p><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="_remedy_2"></a>Remedy</h3></div></div></div><p>To help offset the delay in systems like OSX, Jetty defaults the value for non-native implementations to a <a class="link" href="https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/tree/jetty-9.4.x/jetty-util/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/util/PathWatcher.java#L1431" target="_top">time of 5000ms.</a> |
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