public List getLines(String resource) throws IOException 
{
		BufferedReader reader = null;
		try {
			reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( openResource( resource ) ) );
			List< String > results = new ArrayList< String >();
			String line = reader.readLine();
			while ( line != null ) {
				//comment or empty line
				if ( line.length() != 0 && !line.startsWith( "#" ) ) {
					results.add( line );
				}
				line = reader.readLine();
			}
			return Collections.unmodifiableList( results );
		}
		finally {
			try {
				if (reader != null) reader.close();
			}
			catch ( Exception e ) {
				//we don't really care if we can't close
			}
		}
}

 public Object newInstance(String cname,
    String subpackages) 
{
		if (subpackages != null && subpackages.length  > 0)
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "newInstance(classname, packages) not implemented" );
		final Class< ? > clazz;
		try {
			clazz = ReflectHelper.classForName( cname );
		}
		catch ( ClassNotFoundException e ) {
			throw new SearchException("Unable to find class " + cname, e);
		}
		try {
			final Object instance = clazz.newInstance();
			if (instance instanceof ResourceLoaderAware) {
				( ( ResourceLoaderAware) instance ).inform( this );
			}
			return instance;
		}
		catch ( InstantiationException e ) {
			throw new SearchException("Unable to instanciate class with no-arg constructor: " + cname, e);
		}
		catch ( IllegalAccessException e ) {
			throw new SearchException("Unable to instanciate class with no-arg constructor: " + cname, e);
		}
}

 public InputStream openResource(String resource) throws IOException 
{
		return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream( resource );
}