MessageFormat with arguments not working in jdk 6

Question

I cant get the date to be formatted when using Jdk 6. Has something changed? Or am i using it in a non-standard way that gives this error.
I have run this test in Jdk 1.5.0_10 and 1.6.0_02.
And it fails in the 1.6.0_02.
This is a JUnit 4 testcase.
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import org.junit.Test;
* This test the MessageFormat for usage.
* A bug in jdk 1.6.0 seams to be the problem.
* @author robert.alexandersson
public class LanguageJDKVerificationTest {
     private static long time = 1000555500115L;
     @Test
     public void formatDate(){
          String formatString = "Date {0}";
          Date date = new Date();
          date.setTime(time);
          Object[] args = new Object[]{date};
          Locale locale = new Locale("sv_se");
          MessageFormat format = new MessageFormat(formatString, locale);       
         String formatted = format.format(args);                
         assertEquals(formatted, "Date 2001-09-15 14:05");
}

Answer 1

Hi there and thanx for answering.
I researched a little more.
The problem seams to be that the JDK 6 does not support sv_se as an input for langauge.
BUT, the older JDK:s (1.4 or 5) did this.
I would consider this as a backwards compatablility bug. They(SUN API:s) never said it would work with sv_se but it did anyway.
It does however not seem to be the Locale that handles this different so its propably the DateFormat that is somehow different in its implementation.
The sv_se is the "programmatic" version of the Locale, and this might be why it worked earlier on.