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

You can start your application using a custom class loader, this will allow you to load and unload your static variables.

However, basically its a very bad design to need to do this. I like making fields final, but you shouldn't make them final if you want to change them.