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This service is useful for features like <a class="link" href="hot-deployment.html" title="Hot Deployment">Hot Deployment</a>.
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&#8217;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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