resourcebundle

A Properties object can hold Objects, not just Strings. That tends to be forgotten because they’re overwhelmingly used to load .properties files, and so often will only contain Strings. The documentation indicates that calling bundle.getStringArray(key) is equivalent to calling (String[]) bundle.getObject(key). That’s the problem: the value isn’t a String[], it’s a String. I’d suggest storing … Read more

Add an extra apostrophe ‘ to the MessageFormat pattern String to ensure the ‘ character is displayed String text = java.text.MessageFormat.format(“You”re about to delete {0} rows.”, 5); ^ An apostrophe (aka single quote) in a MessageFormat pattern starts a quoted string and is not interpreted on its own. From the javadoc A single quote itself … Read more

As long as you name your resource bundle files correctly (with a .properties extension), then this works: File file = new File(“C:\\temp”); URL[] urls = {file.toURI().toURL()}; ClassLoader loader = new URLClassLoader(urls); ResourceBundle rb = ResourceBundle.getBundle(“myResource”, Locale.getDefault(), loader); where “c:\temp” is the external folder (NOT on the classpath) holding the property files, and “myResource” relates to … Read more