Define Bundle in Skin

Hi,
I use JDeveloper 11.1.1.0.0. I define a skin to my ADF application and use a custom bundle class for it and change trinidad-config.xml for using my skin .
<skin>
<id>mySkin.desktop</id>
<family>mySkin</family>
<extends>blafplus-rich.desktop</extends>
<render-kit-id>org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.desktop</render-kit-id>
<style-sheet-name>css/GlobalCss.css</style-sheet-name>
<bundle-name>oes.platform.view.bundle.FundationlBundle</bundle-name>
</skin>
every thing is OK except some text don't change. for example I add
org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.UIXEditableValue.REQUIRED also oracle.adf.view.faces.UIXEditableValue.REQUIRED and REQUIRED_TIP keys to my bundle class for required validation
messages but when a required validation fire I see default messages.
please help me.
Thanks very much.

Hi,
bet way to address Trinidad issues is on the Trinidad mailing lists.
http://myfaces.apache.org/trinidad/trinidad-1_2/mail-lists.html
Frank

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Hi,
I'm using a paged af:table and getting in the logs "<RenderingContext> <getTranslatedString> Could not fetch resource key Page from the skin myskin.desktop" (roughly translated).
Solution in non-portal application is to specify resource bundle with specified key in trinidad-skins.xml/skins/skin/bundle-name but what is the proper solution in a portal application if I still want to allow for runtime selection of skin?
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Second, I've created the file adf-faces-skins.xml like this:
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<skins xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/view/faces/skin">
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<render-kit-id>oracle.adf.desktop</render-kit-id>
<bundle-name>
com.ieci.mugeju.view.resource.MugejuResourceBundle
</bundle-name>
</skin>
</skins>
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com.ieci.mugeju.view.resource.MugejuResourceBundle
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or
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Hi all.
I want to ask to webcenter community developers about the best practice to work with ADF Skin Editor for WebCenter Apps.
I usually deployed my ADF Skin JAR Libraries as Shared Libs and consumed them from pure ADF Applications without problems.
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So it sounds like there is no way for a skin to be resolved at design-time if it exists in the the same project where you are making use of the control. Unless of-course you explicitly set the skinClass on the instance of the control. So even if you were to create a custom skin for a button and set it as the default skin for all buttons, it can never be resolved at design-time.
Unless I am missing something and you can have a package within a project compiled as a SWC just-in-time for the design view to display it. Something tells me this is not possible. What about a second project that contains the skins and is in the same workspace as the main project. Is there any way to make design view happy in that scenario?
I'm getting a little frustrated with the lack of support for Spark in FB4.
Any additional thoughts on this are appreciated.

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