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Not A bug

Posted by Georg von Sperling on September 28, 2001 at 7:01 PM

Found this link http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=44221

Hope that helps.

> > I also need to do this. We allow our users to edit the ResourceBundle's properties file and need to be able to update the ResourceBundle.

> > Nick

> > > How would i reload a file that is loaded as a ResourceBundle after
> > > it has been changed. I control my web based UI's look and feel using
> > > a properties file and I load that file as a ResourceBundle. When i
> > > change the file and try to reload it i get the old copy until i restart
> > > the servlet engine.

> > > Thanks in Advance.
> > > Patrick

> It is a bug in Java code. You need to implement your own ResourceBundle in order to do that.