The Crawler

A crawler application has now been written, this is essential to detect changes, as the whole file structure of the documentation will need to be crawled through to detect changes. This crawler application has methods which will return all files within a specified root directory, all directories within a specified root directory and all files and directories within a specified root directory, these are returned as an arraylist of strings. This could also be useful for the finishing off of the random directory and XML generation application.

Certain settings will need to be specified in the final configuration file to determine certain characteristics of this crawler application such as how often it iterates through the files.