How to set a variable in JAVA ?

Question

I am using following code to load a file
properties.load(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("FILENAME"))
This works fine but I dont want to hardcode the filename, instead I want to use a menthod which rerutns me the file name to be supplied here.
How can I set this in two steps ?
That is if methodA returns the filename then
I want to do something like unix export
FILENAME=xxxxxxx
& then use FILENAME in quotes in above code so that the value is passed on.
Please help me to do this.
Thanks

Answer 1

How can I set this in two steps ?
That is if methodA returns the filename then
I want to do something like unix export
FILENAME=xxxxxxx
& then use FILENAME in quotes in above code so that
the value is passed on.
Please help me to do this.You probably need at least three seperate objects. One to create references based on supplied requirements, one to manage the loading which uses the first and then perhaps a third which provides the saving and retrieving of the references. This is if you plan to scale-up the application. If you don't want to use environment variables you could also look at using serialisation.