FTP adapter in Spring

[Balaji Sivaprakasam]

Hello all,
Actually am new to Spring.
I want to know about FTP adapter.

I have searched in google. But I didn't get it clearly.

Actually i want to do the following process via java code[Spring]
The code has to continuosly check a particular folder[It can be the local folder or system where the Java code resides] for the XML files.
If any file is placed in that folder the code has to take the file, and copy it to another folder and starts pasrsing the XML.
I have the code to parse the XML.

What I want to know is, whether FTP adapter is the only way to it ot any thing else is there to resolve this issue?
If FTP Adapter is the only way, please tell me how to do that.

Thanks in advance .