Help loading non-jre bundled locale basic_*.properties

Question

Hello All,
I have an app where the user can change the language dynamically. Whenever the language (locale) is changed I call UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getLookAndFeel()); to reinitilise the values in the OptionPane/FileChooser etc. Basically everything defined in the following files.
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic.properties (English)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_de.properties (German)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_es.properties (Spanish)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_fr.properties (French)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_it.properties (Italian)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_ja.properties (Japanese)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_ko.properties (Korean)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_sv.properties (Slovakian ??)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_zh_CN.properties (Chinese)
com\sun\swing\internal\plaf\basic\resources\basic_zh_TW.properties (Taiwanese??)
The problem I have is that I also want to provide other languages to the user than those defined above.
Therefore I defined my own basic_*.properties files in my classpath.
However, when I call UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getLookAndFeel()); they are not picked up.
I suppose I could read my file every time the locale is changed and call UIManager.put(key,value) for each entry in the basic_*.properties file but I would rather not.
Does anybody know how to read these files automatically when the locale is changed. Which class is responsible for loading the property files bundled with the JRE?
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N35 (j2sdk1.4.1_01)

Answer 1

So you defined your own basic_*.properties file then?
The problem I have is the application is started from within an already running application (various checks performed before starting app2). Application 1 may be in a different locale to application 2.
Application 1 initialises Swing to English, but application 2 wants to run in Finnish (for example). Therefore application 2 needs to reset swing based on the Locale Finnish. Therefore it needs to load the properties defined in the basic_fn.properties which I have defined in my class path.
How can I do this?