ListResourceBundle MissingResourceException

Question

Can anyone explain to me why the following code doesn't work. I was under the impression that the resource name had to be the class name, but I get this error:
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name GUIResourceBundle, locale en_US
at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:804)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:773)
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:511)
The code:
package test;
import java.util.*;
public class GUIResourceBundle extends ListResourceBundle {
    public java.lang.Object[][] getContents() {
        return contents;
    private static final Object[][] contents=new Object[][]{
        {"test","test"}
    public static void main(String[] args){
        ResourceBundle.getBundle("GUIResourceBundle");
}

Answer 1

Same here - a few years later and this post just helped me out. I beat my head against the wall for a couple of hours trying to figure this out. It wasn't obvious to me from reading the API docs that you have to specify the package name in the getBundle call. Thanks for posting the solution once you figured it out.