Refreshing properties files

Question

Hi
At the moment any time we make a change to a properties file, we have to restart tomcat for the changes to take effect.
I'm trying to set up a jsp page which will call the function in the bean which loads the properties file.
This is the codes we're using:
in = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/pagedata.properties");
props.load(in);
in.close();
It works fine when the the bean is loaded but if I make a change to the properties file and call this function to load the props file again it doesn't work.
Thanks.

Answer 1

maybe,in your system,there are more than two property files named 'pagedata.properties' and maybe they are all in directory you classpath points to. And perhaps you change one,but your running program use another.