James Mitchell has put together some code that will get you started. 
Here's the link:

http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta/downloads/DBMessageResources

MARK wrote:
> I have come across the same issue as you are hinting on.  Here's my take on this.
> 
> I for one do not like certain things to be "static" i.e. contained in some file, 
>contained in some war, contained in the servlet container's path.  All this 
>translates to rebuilding the war, to update strings/validation rules, etc, and 
>potentially stopping / restarting the servlet container (perhaps only to fix a 
>spelling error....something a mere mortal user admin type could effectively do 
>through an editable interface).
> 
> I have also come up with the desire to have a "skinnable" application whereas the 
>"user interface" can be interchanged without necessarily affecting the business 
>processes.  This idea supports the ability to have jsp/html, wap, etc from the same 
>application.  Feasible with struts? unknown...
> 
> Storing the message strings in a db, along with elements of the UI (templates) is 
>certainly a nice to have item.  However, I would stress that we would need some sort 
>of cache service (aka fulcrum) to cache these resources for performance reasons.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
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> On 10/8/2002 at 2:48 PM Erik Hatcher wrote:
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>>I've seen this mentioned before, but is anyone actively working on 
>>pulling message resources from a database rather than a properties or 
>>XML file?  I'll cross-post this over to commons-dev as that has moved to 
>>Commons Sandbox, but I figured folks would be the ones working on it.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>      Erik
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