Using ResourceBundle and Locale in an Applet

Question

hello,
i worked out a little application to use with multilanguage support.
i wrote two classes so i can start the application within a jar file located on my computer and anotherone to launch it as an applet...
for development i use Eclipse; when i try to run it in eclipse everything works fine (although i limit the access of the applet!)
when i try to run the applet in IE i get the error message:
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.util.PropertyPermission user.dir read)i did not use the function "System.getProperty("user.dir")" in MY code which is referred!
so i guess its one of the included packages:
ResourceBundle | Locale
how can i solve this problem as its working in the limited access applet in eclipse??
thanks in advance

Answer 1

note: i do load the .properties file from the JAR package, not from hdd!
here is my code
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.ResourceBundle;
public class Xlocale {
     private Locale locale = Locale.ENGLISH;
     private ResourceBundle thisLocaleRB;
     public Xlocale(String aXlocaleName, String aLocale) {
          setLocale(getLocale(aLocale)); //if you leave this line it won't work *hmm?*
          if (thisLocaleRB == null || getLocale() != thisLocaleRB.getLocale()) {
               try {
                    thisLocaleRB = ResourceBundle.getBundle(aXlocaleName, getLocale());
               } catch (Exception e) {
                    //System.err.println(e.getLocalizedMessage()+" ["+System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\"+aXlocaleName+"_"+getLocale()+".properties]\n");
     public String getString(String key, String dv) {
          String val = thisLocaleRB.getString(key);
          if (val == null)
               return dv;
          else
               return val;
     public void setLocale(Locale l) {
          this.locale = l;
     public Locale getLocale() {
          return this.locale == null ? Locale.ENGLISH : locale;
    public static Locale getLocale(String loc)
        if(loc!=null && loc.length()>0)
            return new Locale(loc);
        else
            return Locale.ENGLISH;
}