messages.properties are not loaded when included in a jar-fi

[pnorman4]

Hi

I have a Seam 1.2.1 web application where I can add functionality as plug-ins. A plug-in consist of jsf pages, web resources and a jar-file with classes. The jar-file is put in WEB-INF/lib and contains messages.properties in the root. The jared beans work fine but messages.properties doesn't seem to be loaded.

Do I have to explicitly point out the message bundle? How?

If I have several plug-in jar-files, can they all contain messages.properties, or do they need to have different names?

Thanx

[pmuir]

properties are loaded off the classpath so that should work fine. How do you load the properties files?

You'll need them all to be differently named otherwise they'll all occupy the same name on the classpath

[pnorman4]

Tanks

By naming my message bundles differently I could get them all loaded.

The only thing is that I now need to specify each bundle in components.xml, which resides in the generic web application. That means that for each new plug-in I have to update the web application. It would be better if the plugin could point out its own message bundle.

I tried to add

org.jboss.seam.core.resourceBundle.bundleNames=plugin_specific_messages

in seam.properties (as in 13.2.1 in the Seam 1.2.1 reference), but it didn't work.

Question: Is there a way to inside a jar-file configure Seam to add a new message bundle?

[pmuir]

You could provide your own implementation of the the resourceBundle component that implements your custom bundle name resolving strategy.

[pnorman4]

Ok. That's a good idéa. Thanks for your time!