Updating/Reloading Message Bundles

Question

Hi!,
I'm developing a JSF application which needs its Message Bundles to be updated quite regularly. The only way I've found to reload a message bundle file is to reload the context, which is not only tedious but also potentially hazardous as, under high client loads, sessions might be destroyed and the clients might lose their ongoing transactions.
Do I have any simpler way of making JSF reload a message bundle whenever it changes? Or at least force JSF to reload a message bundle when I want it to?
Kind Regards,
Guido

Answer 1

Well... I've removed the Duke Dollars as I've found the reply.
As there is no standard method in ResourceBundle, the non-standard way to do it involves reflection to make the cacheList field accessible, clearing it then make it private again, all of this in the ResourceBundle instance to be reloaded.
The code to do so is:
Field field = ResourceBundle.getBundle("resources.framework").getClass().getSuperclass().getDeclaredField("cacheList");
field.setAccessible(true);
sun.misc.SoftCache cache = (sun.misc.SoftCache)field.get(null);
cache.clear();
field.setAccessible(false);Obviously, where "resources.framework" is your resource bundle name.
I think that the reloading of a whole set of internationalized bundles would involve getting the faces context, retrieving all the installed locales, then acquiring the bundles one by one and applying this method.
Cheers!
Guido
Buenos Aires - Argentina