sun.misc.resources claims to contain a ResourceBundle for sun.misc, which has localized versions of messages for "bad" jar files, such as:
"optpkg.versionerror", "ERROR: Invalid version format used in {0} JAR file. Check the documentation for the supported version format." "optpkg.attributeerror", "ERROR: The required {0} JAR manifest attribute is not set in {1} JAR file." "optpkg.attributeserror", "ERROR: Some required JAR manifest attributes are not set in {0} JAR file." These error message appear to not be used, either by the JDK itself, or elsewhere. I assume that there was a consumer of these at one point, but has long since been refactored away. http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8153118/ https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8153118 -Chris.