Cache properties

[Ed Lance]

Question regarding caching of properties file data. Suppose I have a ResouceBundle that I refer to via a message-resouce tag.

What's the recommended way for caching this if I so desire? Would prefer not putting it in session.

Is there some way to keep a handle to the original ResourceBundle?

Thanks!

[Merrill Higginson]

I'm no expert on this area, but it's my impression that the resource bundle is already being cached in some way. I'm reasonably certain that your jsp doesn't physically read the properties file each time it accesses it. My reason for believing this is that I know from experience that if I change the properties file, I can't get Struts to recognize the changes without restarting the application. This tells me it's reading it at startup and somehow keeping a handle to it.
[ March 04, 2005: Message edited by: Merrill Higginson ]

[Marc Peabody]

Merrill is correct. ApplicationResource files are cached into the ServletContext when Struts first starts up.