Hi all,
Has anyone seen this problem I describe below? Tomcat 4 seems to be caching
resouce files the way it caches classes, requiring a restart of the
application every time I change a properties file. Tomcat 3 (and other
servlet engines) did not behave this way- every time I did a
getResourceAsStream it would re-open the file. Is this new behavior correct
or a bug?
Thanks for any help!
-Richard
----- Original Message -----
> I have a .properties file that I use for my application configuration that
I
> keep in WEB-INF/classes. I use
> getClass().getResourceAsStream("/myfile.properties") from within a bean to
> load the properties into a static hashtable, and I have a control servlet
> that can tell the bean to reload the file. This just allows me to edit
the
> properties without having to start and stop the application (which was a
> more painful process pre-Catalina).
>
> Now that I've switched from 3.2.3 to 4.0.1, what I'm seeing is that my
> changes to the properties file are not being picked up when I reset my
bean.
> I've traced through everything, and determined that my subsequent calls to
> getResourceAsStream are still opening the original file, even though I've
> modified and saved it. Its as if the classloader is treating the resource
> as a class, and it is loading it once and keeping it around, so I need to
> reload the application to reload the resource.
>
> This was not the behavior under 3.x, so my question is, is this proper
> behavior in 4.x, and if so, is there a workaround?
>
> Thanks for any replies!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard
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