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 you have an UI or a daemon so you can control output to stdout, you can make a wrapper on the outside that starts your program.

If the program upon exit outputs "RESTART" you can restart your program again from this wrapper. If not, it just ends.

Or if you want the pure java way, you can go with a solution with classloaders as Peter Lawrey mentioned in his post. Before going down this route you should really rethink your design (if it is your code) and make your code capable of cleaning itself up.