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And at last, we implement an infinite loop to wait for incoming events.

Next, we register a Path instance for the folder to be monitored with the types of events that we are interested in.

The first step is to create a new WatchService by using the newWatchService() method of the FileSystem class.

When the service detects an event of interest, it is forwarded to the registered process and handled as needed. When registering, we tell the service which types of events we are interested in: file creation, file modification, or file deletion. It enables us to register a folder with the watch service.

The package provides a file change notification API, called the Watch Service API. Learn more about watching files with Java NIO.