Java web application that can stream the content of an arbitrary file to the browser (live tail)

Question

I have been searching the web for a while for a Java web application that can be used to \"tail\" on any arbitrary file on the file system. The most important requirement wo

Answer 1

Ok, so I followed @Liv suggestion and I have built the thing myself. It's the fruit of a couple of hours of coding, so don't expect much.

I have tested it on Tomcat and Jetty. Check out the README file.

https://github.com/aestasit/logviewer

Answer 2

I had to do this myself a while back as I couldn't find one. I would recommend going down via the Ajax route -- as trying to have "tail -f ..." process started and capturing its console is tedious and also since you keep the connection to the browser open for a long while you will find out that sometimes the browser will just close the connection.