James Mitchell wrote: >Sorry guys... for not responding earlier. > <super-mega-snip/>
Sorry I should have filled you in, James. I forwarded him the relevant part of your discussion. >Also, I'm not sure how many passes I would make over the list, you certainly >wouldn't want a circular reference. > <snip> Since we're talking about a database here: Yes, you'd want to avoid circular references. However, I wouldn't think it would take more than a single pass through the view to churn out all of your resources. If you used the key as ... *drum roll* ... the key, you could just look it up out of the database. That's just my initial impression ... >Anyway, I've been searching for my Master-Wish-List that has this idea and a >few others in it. Can't seem to find it on my laptop. I'll send you more >stuff later. Also let me know if you want help getting a >JDBCMessageResources using OJB rolling. > <snip> I don't know how helpful that would be. I love it for a persistence framework, but it seems like it might possibly be (mega-)over-kill for this task. Although! ... that would certainly take away any confusion about what the table/field names were (just map your classes to your tables)! The down-side would be that, not only would you have to instantiate your bundle, but you'd also have to instantiate an object for *every single* key/value pair (that got used). Regards, Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>