Loading resource bundle outside WEB-INF/classes folder

Question

For some reason the messages.properties file is located somewhere in WEB-INF folder but outside WEB-INF/classes folder. Specifically the file's path is /WEB-INF/messages/messages.properties. How do I load this resource bundle using the method ResourceBundle.getBundle( ? )?

This might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1172424/how-to-load-a-resource-bundle-from-a-file-resource-in-java — home, Nov 30 '12 at 06:09
since only classes folder is in classpath, only possible way I see is to override Tomcat class loader some way. Easy way is to put messages folder in classes dir . — Subin Sebastian, Nov 30 '12 at 06:33

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 30 '12 at 07:47

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You can get the path using the Servlet context as follows;

getServletContext().getResource("/messages/messages.properties).getPath();

then using the URLClassLoader() create a class loader and pass this on to the getBundle() method.

answered Nov 30 '12 at 07:47

dinukadev

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 03 '14 at 01:23

I just put together a ResourceBundle.Control extension that handles this exact situation:

https://gist.github.com/Tzrlk/82d74c074e63955a8a35

usage:

ServletContext servletContext = //! get access to servlet context instance
Locale locale = //! get access to locale instance

try {
    ResourceBundle.Control control = new ServletContextBundleControl(servletContext);
    ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("/WEB-INF/messages/messages", locale, control);
} catch (MissingResourceException error) {
    // handle exception 
}

Loading resource bundle outside WEB-INF/classes folder

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