Restart myself - can I reinitialize everything from scratch?

Question

I have something like this:

public static final String path;
static {
    path = loadProperties(\"config.conf\").getProperty(\"path\");
}

public static void mai         


        

Answer 1

If your goal is simply to reload some configuration files, why not implement a file change monitor?

Here's a good tutorial on this subject:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/notification.html

I think what you're proposing (restarting your application automatically) would be a little more cumbersome than just watching for file updates.