Struts - Application.properties and ApplicationResources.properties

Question

Java Guru's,
Could some one tell me the difference between Application.properties and ApplicationResources.properties and which one shd i use in my application.
Thank you in Advance ..

Answer 1

Name it whatever you want. All that matters is the part before the .properties extension matches what you put in the struts-config.xml:
<!-- Main resource bundle, contains errors and some generic stuff. -->
<message-resources parameter="com.company.app.MainResources"
     null="true"/>
<!-- Alternate resource bundle, contains some special things maybe. -->
<message-resources parameter="com.company.app.AltResources"
     key="altResourceKey" null="true" />
// and have the files...
appdir/WEB-INF/classes/com/company/app/MainResources.properties
appdir/WEB-INF/classes/com/company/app/AltResources.properties
// and use them with the bean:message tag...
<bean:message key="some.main.key" />
<bean:message bundle="altResourceKey" key="some.alt.key" />The only thing that matters is that several Struts tags, like the <html:errors /> for ActionErrors will only use 1 message resource file. The html:errors tag can specify an alternate resource file, but all the error keys used for that html:errors instance must be in that same bundle. So usually I put all my error messages in the main one and if it's a large app, I put several other resource files for different areas of the app.