Best practices for building menus using resource bundles?

Greetings; I am curious to find out what the current best practices people are using to build menus/menu bars using resource bundles, specifically ListResourceBundle.
What I am trying to figure out is how best to write my Swing application so it does not need to know what menu items it needs to grab from the resource bundle.
The only idea I have come up with is this:
class MyBundle extends ListResourceBundle {
private Object[][] contents = {
{"menubar", { {"menu.file.item", "blah"}, ....} }
}Inside the GUI class:
Object[][] menubar = resourceBundle.getObject("menubar");I would then iterate over the menu bar items and build the menu. I would have to use a naming scheme and then parse appropriately to know when to start a new menu, when a submenu occurs, etc.
Is this the common practice, or does anyone know of a more clever way of doing this? I've searched various FAQs and googled about, but I have yet to come across any sort of tutorial or page that covers this.

Anyone have any input on this? Am I close to the solution people are
using out in real production environments?

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