Using message bundle

I have a message bundle that contains all of the text for our site. I tried to put some html tags in the bundle for underlining or bolding or created a list item, and my jsf page shows the actual html code on the page. How do I apply html tags to parts of text that come from a message budle? For example, I have the sentence
Your User ID is not valid.
How do I display this on the page with just User ID in bold? When I try this in my message bundle:
Your <b>User ID</b> is not valid.
I get this printed on the screen:
Your <b>User ID</b> is not valid.
Thanks!

In fact you are not supposed to include markup in the messages for several reasons:
1. It couples the message bundle to the markup. What if you use the same messages to render WML for example?
2. Anyway the JSF implementation does not render the markup inside messages.
3. The JSF architecture offers styles exactly for this purpose: separating content and styles.
You should define CSS styles and refer them in the styleClass attribute of your message tags.
Hope this helps.
Bruno
http://www.practicalsoftwarearchitect.com

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<h:outputText value="#{bundle.messageA}" />or this:
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Ah this way. So you want that much of nasty if statements in the bean instead? ;)
Then make use of the fact that you also can access Map values using the brace notation. E.g.
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Hi:
I'm not sure about if i'm doing something wrong or maybe could be a bug in JDeveloper 9.0.2....
I have three projects: A Project_A with BC4J packages (controlling BC4J entitties, views and AM's. In order words, only controlling the business rules side); a Project_B with a JClient programs using the AM's defined in Project_A and; a Project_C with a JSP_UIX using the AM's defined in Project_A.
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I have the same project structure.
My purpose is to have a different message bundle for JClient app and Struts/ADF app.
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I get the original message in my Struts app and not the message above.
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Hi
I have different properties file which I want to use as message bundle.
Message.properties
Help.properties
When I specify this in faces-config.xml
<application>
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<message-bundle>/Help</message-bundle>
</application>
and now when I try to use that in my jsp page like this
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I only specify one properties file in the <application> tag. That one is used for system messages. I have other properties files for labels, and another for just standard app text, so in my faces-config.xml I have something like this:
<application>
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<locale-config>
<default-locale>en</default-locale>
</locale-config>
</application>
where my message.properties is used for system messages (validation, etc).
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Hi All,
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I would appreciate any help
thanks in advance and Regards
Fabio

Please someone could help me why this file cannot be located, I am 100% of sure the property file path is in my classpath since it works fine in a servlet.
Is the property file in your classpath? or whether the directory where the property file is residing is in your classpath. Please put only the directory where the property file is located in the classpath and try again.
It may be working fine with the servlet because j2ee servlet containers put the classes and lib directory automatically in the classpath therefore resource bundle gets loaded even without putting it explicitly in the classpath. This doesn't happen when you try to test some component from the console.
Let me know if this does not work.
regards,
Abhishek.

Message bundles accessed from JSF and JSP pages

Hello, everybody!
I'm developing a localized JSF application. It is working pretty well until now.
These are my message files:
mensagens.properties
mensagens_en_US.propertiesThis is how they're configured in faces-config.xml:
<application>
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</application>And this is how I access the messages in a page:
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my web application. This page is displaying ok but I also need to access the
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As you should know I can't use something like the above code with an +<h:outputText>+
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suppose there should be a way to do this, but unfortunately I started programming
to the web world in Java with JSF, not JSP, so I don't know how to do this with
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BalusC wrote:
Just include [jstl-1.2.jar|https://maven-repository.dev.java.net/repository/jstl/jars/] in your classpath and define the fmt taglib in your JSP. Nothing more is needed.
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Argh! Message bundle file names are not allowed to have dots???

It took me several hours to find the reason for this exception:
java.util.MissingResourceException: Can't find bundle for base name properties\com.domain.prj.huj.MainApp.Messages, locale de_DE
     at java.util.ResourceBundle.throwMissingResourceException(ResourceBundle.java:804)
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Nope. Periods are used to delimit packages in the basename. So given:
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Message Bundle class not found

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i'm using JDev 10.1.3.3, and creating ADF BC application. When i've created the jspx page, went to it's Page Definition, and in Structure editor tried to add the Message Bundle file to this page - selected the "Generate Resource Bundle" from the context menu - i'm getting error "Class ...app_XXXPageDefMsgBundle not found" .
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Hey Im trying to make the message bundle
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You might be able to do it using the fact that ResourceBundles may be actual classes; i.e. they do not have to be properties files.
But, I am inclined to ask what is the problem you are trying to solve? I suspect you may be down the wrong path. Be broad in your description of the problem.

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My question is how does the data model layer find the locale for the user? So when it issues a data model validation error, how does it know to use the italian version instead of the default, english one?
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Hi Heri,
the system behavior is correct. The account in company code consists of three entity types:
1) COA - Chart of Accounts (Type 3)
2) ACCOUNT - Account (A-Segment, related to ECC table SKA1, Type 1)
3) ACCCCDET - Account in Company Code (B-Segment, releated to ECC table SKB1, Type 1).
3) includes 1) and 2) whereas 2) includes 1). If you grant authorization only for 3) but not for 1) and 2), you cannot do anything.
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Message-bundle

Hello,
I have declared a message-bundle in my faces-config.xml :
<message-bundle>resource.messages</message-bundle>But if I want to use this one in my JSP file, I have to declare the following tag :
<f:loadbundle basename="resource.messages" var="bundle" />Isn't it possible to use the bundle declared in the faces-config.xml file without declaring a f:loadbundle tag in my JSP file ?
So, is it possible to declare the message-bundle in the faces-config.xml as :
<message-bundle id="bundle">resource.messages</message-bundle>...and use the #{bundle.key} in the JSP file ?
Could someone help me please ?
Thanks in advance.
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I don't think you can automatically load message bundles into a JSP page without defining it with loadBundle.
As for localization, JSF allows you to specify a resource bundle in your faces-config.xml file. This will allow JSF to load the appropriate message bundles defined by the users browser. You still have to include it with loadBundle if you want to access it via JSP. JSF also allows you to mess with these resource bundles programatically.
Here's an example of the entry in your faces-config.xml file.
<faces-config>
     <application>
          <locale-config>
               <default-locale>en</default-locale>
               <supported-locale>de</supported-locale>
          </locale-config>
          <message-bundle>
               com.facesite.resource.MessageResources
          </message-bundle>
     </application>
</faces-config>This will tell JSF that MessageResources.properties is the en (English) locale and to load this by default but it also tells JSF that you have a MessageResources_de.properties file that supports the German language which would be specified by the browser.
Loading it into your JSP.
<f:loadBundle basename="com.facesite.resource.MessageResources" var="msg"/>The MessageResources.properties file is in the standard java.util.Properties format.

Message bundle always loading default bundle???

I have propertly created message bundle properties file. But I have problem in situation when I use example:
<h:commandLink value="#{bundle.sLogout}" styleClass="HeaderLoginText"
action="#{page.logout}" rendered="#{page.logged}"/>
in this case my application always first show values from default properties file, example from messages.properties. But this was happend only then I start page for first time, then I change language, example click on button which set viewRoot on some other language, application shows correct values.
What can be problem?
Thanks for any sugestion!

I found a solution,
I hope there is a better one,
What i did is a got the source for ADF faces found the XML file where all the msgs are located (MessageBundle.xrts). Then using a tool that comes with the source files XRTSMakeBundle, I compiled the XML file, and it created java files with all the msgs. So I compiled them and replaced the classes in the ADF faces api jar.
this seems like a long work around, in JSF RI, all you have to do is extend the key in the resource bundle and poof it works, I couldn't get that working here.
This works, seems like a lot of work for a simple task!!!
any other solutions out there????
I am considering not to use ADF faces, i think i will use my faces with jsf-comp client java script, as that was one of the reason i wanted to use ADF faces.

Put several message-bundle in faces-config.xml

Hello,
I want to put several message bundle in faces-config.xml.
How can I do that?
I tried the following but it didn't worked
<application>
     <locale-config>
          <default-locale>fr</default-locale>
     </locale-config>
     <message-bundle>
          messages.Messages_fr
     </message-bundle>
     <message-bundle>
          messages.Messages_en
     </message-bundle>
</application>

the system will get automatically the right file depending on the Locale object , so you do not have to mention each file in the faces-config.xml
<locale-config>
<default-locale>fr</default-locale>
<supported-locale>en</supported-locale>
the supported locale is used by JSF when readind the HTTP header and depending on the language, it will choose the right mesages bundle
The best way to process is to bind the locale property of the tag <f:view locale=#{Bean.locale}> and to change it dynamically (see class Locale in the sun API)

Finding message bundle from custom tag

I have a JSP page which has a <fmt:setBundle> to set the translations bundle. It also has a tag which I handle using a custom tag handler based on TagSupport. One of the attributes to this tag is a string which I need to look up in the message bundle, so I need to find the right message bundle as set at the top of the JSP page.
So putting the question succinctly, how, from custom tag handler code, do I find the message bundle the page is using?

So putting the question succinctly, how, from custom tag handler code, do I find the message bundle the page is using? To answer your question:
The <fmt:setBundle> tag (according to the documentation:
Creates an i18n localization context and stores it in the scoped variable or the
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext configuration variableSo you can look up that configuration variable, and use its information to obtain the resource bundle name, or the Localization object which wraps the bundle.
Of course, thats the hard way...
You see the friendly folks who wrote the JSTL knew that there would be people who would want to do this.
So they wrote a helper class for us: [javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.LocaleSupport|http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/1.1/docs/api/javax/servlet/jsp/jstl/fmt/LocaleSupport.html]
A better question is actually:
How do I look up a message in the bundle set by JSTL <fmt:setBundle> when I am in a custom tag handler?The answer is:
LocaleSupport.getLocalizedMessage(pageContext, key)Its all in their (relatively readable) [JSTL specification|http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/jstl/reference/api/index.html]
cheers,
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