Reloading resources loaded by getResourceAsStream

Question

Following best practices, I\'m using Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream to load resources in a web application (like text files or x

Answer 1

Try this:

ClassLoader ctxLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
URL resURL = ctxLoader.getResource(resName);
URLConnection resConn = resURL.openConnection();
resConn.setUseCaches(false);
InputStream resIn = resConn.getInputStream();
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