Problem with ResourceBundle in Jar

Question

Hi,
I've written the following class which works perfectly in my program but not when used in the same code but distributed as a Jar file.
In this case, only the default locale is used on a "Messages.getString" call, even if I swith the local to English...
I've read that there was a "bug" in the j2sdk1.4.2_05 and I'm using the j2sdk1.4.2_06.
Do you have any idea ?
Thanks,
Marc.
package com.oxiane.marketing.IHM;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.MissingResourceException;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
* Classe servant � g�rer les langues Anglaise et Fran�aise pour
* l'interface.
public class Messages {
     private static final String BUNDLE_NAME = "Messages" ;
     private static ResourceBundle RES_BUNDLE_FR = ResourceBundle.getBundle(BUNDLE_NAME, Locale.getDefault());
     private static ResourceBundle RES_BUNDLE_EN = ResourceBundle.getBundle(BUNDLE_NAME, Locale.ENGLISH);
        public static String getString(String msg){
             try {
                  if (Locale.getDefault().getLanguage() == "fr")
                       return RES_BUNDLE_FR.getString(msg);
                  else
                       return RES_BUNDLE_EN.getString(msg);
             catch (MissingResourceException e){
                  System.out.println(e.getMessage());
                  return "";
     public static void setLocale(Locale loc){
          Locale.setDefault(loc);
     public static Locale getLocale(){
          return Locale.getDefault();
}

Answer 1

You should take care of the directory structure according to the package structure.
I for example have this jar:
C:\source\java\ebank2_util\smsunlock>unzip -l pro-ebank_sms_unlock.jar
Archive:  pro-ebank_sms_unlock.jar
Length    Date    Time    Name
      0  10-28-05  17:27   hu/
      0  10-28-05  17:27   hu/khb/
      0  10-28-05  18:17   hu/khb/smsunlock/
    256  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/DButils$MySQLException.class
   4229  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/DButils.class
   1700  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/GUI$1.class
   2318  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/GUI$2.class
    988  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/GUI$3.class
   1402  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/GUI$mywl.class
   5630  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/GUI.class
    818  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/LimitedLength_TextField.class
   2452  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/Main.class
    900  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/MyInputStream.class
      0  11-07-05  16:33   META-INF/
     98  10-27-05  15:53   META-INF/manifest.mf
     90  11-07-05  16:33   hu/khb/smsunlock/properties
  20881                    16 filesAnd the resource is loaded like this from hu.khb.smsu.Main:
InputStream is = new MyInputStream( Main.class.getResourceAsStream( "properties" ) );