PropertiesListener.h

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// $Header: /cvsroot/acdk/acdk/acdk_core/src/acdk/util/PropertiesListener.h,v 1.7 2005/02/05 10:45:06 kommer Exp $
#ifndef acdk_util_PropertiesListener_h
#define acdk_util_PropertiesListener_h

#include <acdk.h>
#include <acdk/lang/Thread.h>
#include <acdk/util/Properties.h>

namespace acdk {
namespace util {

ACDK_DECL_CLASS(PropertiesListener);

/**
  Implements a deamon thread, which will update the given
  Property if a SIGHUB will be encountered.
  @author Roger Rene Kommer (mailto:kommer@artefaktur.com)
*/
class ACDK_CORE_PUBLIC PropertiesListener
: extends ::acdk::lang::Thread
{
  ACDK_WITH_METAINFO(PropertiesListener)
protected:
  RString _configFile;
  RProperties _properties;
public:
  static bool reconfigure;
  PropertiesListener(IN(RString) cfgFile, IN(RProperties) props);
  void reload();
  void run();
};



} // util
} // acdk

#endif //acdk_util_PropertiesListener_h