Resource bundle for this purpose? Is it ok?

Question

Hi all,
I want to use ResourceBundle for some other situation which is not related to internationalization.
We have a program in which we want need to externalize our strings but not for the sake of internationalization. To give a little example, let's say we have a Welcome screen on which we would like to say: Welcome to XYZ! and we want to customize it to also say Welcome to ABC depending on some program argument and loading a different properties file.
Although ResourceBundles are specialized for internationalization, ResourceBundle seems to be a better choice than to create my own classes and handing them. But I don't know whether I can use it for this kind of a purpose. Any inputs?
Thank you,
Srikanth

Answer 1

You can certainly use ResourceBundle for such things, but it's probably cleaner to use a Properties object since it's not going to go through all the locale detection stuff.
You can just do:
InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream("my.properties");
Properties props = new Properties();
props.load(is);
is.close();