/**
* DataCleaner (community edition)
* Copyright (C) 2014 Neopost - Customer Information Management
*
* This copyrighted material is made available to anyone wishing to use, modify,
* copy, or redistribute it subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
* Lesser General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
* along with this distribution; if not, write to:
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
* Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
*/
package org.datacleaner.util.filemonitor;
import java.nio.file.WatchService;
/**
* A monitoring mechanism for file change events. Typically used by file-based
* reference data to monitor changes to the reference data files.
*
* @deprecated as of Java 7 the preferred way to monitor files is to use
* {@link WatchService}.
*/
@Deprecated
public interface FileMonitor {
boolean hasChanged();
}