java.util.Properties question...

Just a quick question to see if I can avoid reinventing the wheel - the java.util.Properties class can be instantiated from a call to load(InputStream), but is there any easy way to do a load from a String? I'd hate to rewrite all the parsing that is clearly in load(), but similarly I'd hate to do anything as kludgey as creating an InputStream from the String and passing that into load().

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-Jake