I18n, bundles and personalized taglib

Question

Hello,
My aim is to write a personal taglib which could be used such as:
<menu:menu>
<menu:groupmenu name="${menu.group0}">
</menu:groupmenu>
</menu:menu>
the menu.group0 would be an entry in a mymessage.properties file that would be in the classpath
Actually my ${menu.group0} is not interpreted
So my question is why??!
I've set the rtexprvalue to true in my taglib class handler.
I'm not sure of versions of jsp-api to use...as well as I'm not sure if it's possible
Does el expressions evaluate message.properties entries?? or just objects in some scopes?
Any help would be very great, I'm stuck with this :-(
Thanks

Answer 1

Doea anyone from BEA have a reply on this?
Sincerely,
Paul Nyheim
Paul Nyheim wrote:
OK. Thanks.
In our case, we have started out using <netui:label> tags with the
{bundle} value. This works great both in pageflows and in jsp's. However
we have not found a similiar feature here as in the <i18n> taglib that
allows reloading with "i18n.bundle.reload.seconds".
What is the preferred way from BEA when developing portals?
Mvh,
Paul
srini_1976 wrote:
I donno what BEA reccomended way of doing it is... but in our
application we use i18n tags to access i18n message resources.
You can paste the following in your web.xml and it checks for the
properties files and reloads it every 5 mins.
All you have to do is just refresh the JSP. While in development I
have it set to 30 secs.
<context-param>
<param-name>i18n.bundle.reload.seconds</param-name>
<param-value>300</param-value>
</context-param>
As to your question about where to place these files. I would
reccomend putting them in the root folder for the files which will be
accessing these properties.
Hope this helps.