MissingResourceException using ResourceBundle

Question

I'm developing an app based on the Duke's bank app in J2sdkee 1.3 Tutorial. I get the following IE 5.0 browser error when I try to access the "main" page.
A Servlet Exception Has Occurred
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name WebMessages, locale en_CA
     at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:712)
     at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.java:604)
     at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:559)
     at lostfound.web.Dispatcher.doGet(Dispatcher.java:23)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
The code that raises the exception is the same as the Duke's bank code:
public class Dispatcher extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
ResourceBundle messages = (ResourceBundle)session.getAttribute("messages");
if (messages == null) {
Locale locale=request.getLocale();
messages = ResourceBundle.getBundle("WebMessages", locale);
session.setAttribute("messages", messages);
request.setAttribute("selectedScreen", request.getServletPath());
try {
request.getRequestDispatcher("/template.jsp").forward(request, response);
} catch(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
When I created the war file in the j2sdkee 1.3 deploytool, I settings similar to Duke's bank's BankWAR. In my WAR file, I definitely added WebMessages.properties and WebMessages_es.properties, both of which are the same level as WEB-INF. Here I did notice a difference with Duke's bank's WAR settings. In the latter, WebMessages.properties and WebMessages_es.properties appear under WEB-INF/classes. I tried various methods (including drag-drop) but deploytool just wouldn't let me put my webmessage property files under WEB-INF/classes. Any ideas? By the way, how does the server know how to find text and property files anyway?

Answer 1

I am having the same problem. I am using ForteEE to
deploy a version of the bank as a j2ee app. If I just
deploy the web module node from forte to the tomcat
server, then the web-context paths are all picked up
correctly, however if I add the web module to a
j2ee app node in forte and try to deploy this to the
same web-context on the j2ee RI, all my relative urls
(including the one the Dispatcher class uses to pick
up the ResourceBundle) point do not work. I am digging
around to see if there is some deployment descripter
section that I am missing. Howerever, I think I might
file a bug against forte since this may get a faster
response. Please let me know if you resolved this.
Thanks,
Tom
I'm developing an app based on the Duke's bank app in
J2sdkee 1.3 Tutorial. I get the following IE 5.0
browser error when I try to access the "main" page.
A Servlet Exception Has Occurred
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle
for base name WebMessages, locale en_CA
at
java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException
ResourceBundle.java:712)
at
java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundleImpl(ResourceBundle.
ava:604)
at
java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java
559)
at
lostfound.web.Dispatcher.doGet(Dispatcher.java:23)
at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.jav
:740)
at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.jav
:853)
The code that raises the exception is the same as the
Duke's bank code:
public class Dispatcher extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
t, HttpServletResponse response) {
HttpSession session = request.getSession();
ResourceBundle messages =
ges =
(ResourceBundle)session.getAttribute("messages");
if (messages == null) {
Locale locale=request.getLocale();
messages =
ssages = ResourceBundle.getBundle("WebMessages",
locale);
session.setAttribute("messages", messages);
request.setAttribute("selectedScreen",
een", request.getServletPath());
try {
request.getRequestDispatcher("/template.jsp").forward(
equest, response);
} catch(Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
When I created the war file in the j2sdkee 1.3
deploytool, I settings similar to Duke's bank's
BankWAR. In my WAR file, I definitely added
WebMessages.properties and WebMessages_es.properties,
both of which are the same level as WEB-INF. Here I
did notice a difference with Duke's bank's WAR
settings. In the latter, WebMessages.properties and
WebMessages_es.properties appear under
WEB-INF/classes. I tried various methods (including
drag-drop) but deploytool just wouldn't let me put my
webmessage property files under WEB-INF/classes. Any
ideas? By the way, how does the server know how to
find text and property files anyway?