XML polling from webapp

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I want to use Spring Integration to poll for XML files in a certain directory. But I want to deploy this with my webapp. Currently I managed to do this by creating a GenericServlet that spawn's the threads for polling, but this isn't a great idea to do because those threads are beyond the container's control.

I also noticed a strange behavior on my development machine, where other webapps wouldn't start anymore.

What would be a better solution to this?

[mbogoevici]

Hi,

First, you can use the <file-adapter/> for polling the directory for files.

Secondly - you can plug in a ScheduledExecutorService for managing threads externally, rather than using the framework's own threading mechanism. What container are you using?

Regards,
Marius