JNotify

JNotify is a Java library that allow applications to listen to filesystem events, such as:

• File created
• File modified
• File renamed
• File deleted

This repository is a fork of upstream's jnotify.

The last upstream release was 0.94, back in April 2012, and the original source repository was on CVS, which is frankly awful to work with, hence the creation of this fork.

Noteworthy changes

This fork is not a drop-in replacement.

To make the best out of each platform-specific API, the simplified platform-agnostic abstraction layer was dropped to ease maintenance.

The JAR no longer automatically loads the native libraries. It is up to the calling application to determine when and how to do that.

The name of the native libraries was changed to reflect the incompatibility.

Build JAR

The following command will build the main jar (no sources or javadocs) and place it in build/libs

gradle jar

Build native code

You need the qmake build tool from Qt 5.

qmake && make && make clean

NB: this does not cross-compile, so you need to run this command on every supported platform you want to build native code for (Linux, macOS, Windows).

NB: on Windows you may need to use nmake instead, if your Qt installation is configured to use MSVC instead of MinGW.

Native libraries are placed in the native folder.

Deploy to Nexus/Maven

To deploy to a private Nexus repository, simply create a gradle.properties file with the following variables:

nexusRepo=http://repo.domain.tld
nexusUser=user
nexusPass=password

Then run the following command to deploy all jars (main, sources, javadoc) to that repo

gradle uploadArchives

NB: Native code is not deployed to the repo and needs to be bundled separately in your application.