Access message resource without facescontext

Question

Hi
I am developing a JSF application which involves periodic schedulers running in the background, ie Java threads that are CRON-triggered, using notation similar to below:
@MessageDriven(activationConfig = { @ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "cronTrigger", propertyValue = "10 * * * * ?") })
public class MyClass {
...code
}The problem i have is that i am now trying to access the message resource bundle, which would normally be possible in my Java class using the following code:
FacesContext context = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getApplication().getMessageBundle();However, it seems that when running a CRON-triggered thread, the facescontext is returned as null - i'm not entirely sure why. My question is, is there an alternative, more "static" way of accessing the message resource bundle when the facescontext is not available?
Thanks in advance
-Rich

Answer 1

Thanks for your reply.
I have tried hard-coding the message bundle name as you suggest, and the code to retrieve the message bundle now looks like this:
ResourceBundle bundle =  ResourceBundle.getBundle("messages", Locale.ENGLISH,
                                 getCurrentClassLoader(params));("messages" is the name i've defined in faces-config.xml)
However i know get the exception:
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name messages, locale en
at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:836)
Am i missing something?
Thanks, Rich