apache - How to initiate a process upon a folder's content change in windows 8

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2014-07
  • happybuddha

    What am trying to find out is, whenever I paste a .war file into my tomcat's webapp folder, I want a command prompt to be launched from tomcat/bin and run catalina jpda start In other words, tomcat should automatically start whenever I drop a war file into the webapps folder.

    Is it even possible to create a listener on a windows folder and be able to initiate a process thence?

    Env: windows 8 x64, apache tomcat 7.0.50

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    I am Currently running the latest version of XAMPP on Windows 8 Pro without any issues. It performs on the desktop exactly the same as it did on Windows 7.

    Keep in mind though that an upgrade to windows 8 will "uninstall" it by moving all its relevant files to a windows.old directory. So it may still be worth waiting until you have windows 8 installed.