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Roedy Green - 04 Feb 2006 04:44 GMT

I was wondering about my options to dynamically add resources, e.g.
icons and fonts, to a program without shutting it down.

Do any of the following work?

1. add resource files to a directory on the classpath.

2. replace a jar containing the old resources with a new jar of the
same name?

3. something with classloaders.

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Roedy Green - 04 Feb 2006 04:47 GMT

On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 04:44:31 GMT, Roedy Green
<my_email_is_posted_on_my_website@munged.invalid> wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Do any of the following work?
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>3. something with classloaders.

perhaps the best way to load them from your own jar as raw bytes.

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