This is how we do it. We have a message utility class with this code in it.
public static String getMessageFromBundle(String bundleName, String key, Object[] params, Locale locale) { String message = null; ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle(bundleName, locale, getCurrentClassLoader(params)); try { message = bundle.getString(key); } catch (MissingResourceException error) { message = new StringBuilder().append("key:'").append(key).append("': ").append(NO_RESOURCE_FOUND).append(" with error: ").append(error).toString(); } if (params != null) { MessageFormat mf = new MessageFormat(message, locale); message = mf.format(params, new StringBuffer(), null).toString(); } return message; } We also have a backing bean that is abstract that we extend all our backing beans from with this method in it: /** * A convenience method for retreiving a message from a message bundle * @param key - The message key. * @param params - An optional array of parameters to supply to the message * * @return A String containing the message retrieved from the message bundle. */ public static String getMessage(String key, Object[] params) { return MessageUtil.getMessageFromBundle(Constants.MESSAGE_RESOURCE_LOCATION, key, params, FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getViewRoot().getLocale()); } -Richard On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Guy Bashan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I also had the same problem. Using <s:loadBundle> from the myfaces sandbox > solved this issue. > > > > Guy > > > > From: Marcel Brückner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:15 PM > To: users@myfaces.apache.org > Subject: retrieving resource bundles in backing bean > > > > MyFaces 1.1.5, Tomcat 5.5 > > I currently use the following way to retrieve resource bundles: > > FacesContext cont = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance(); > UIViewRoot viewRoot = cont.getViewRoot(); > Locale loc = viewRoot.getLocale(); > labelsResource = ResourceBundle.getBundle("labels", loc); > > This code is part of a CTOR of a request scoped backing bean. > > It sometimes happens that the resource bundle returned from "getBundle" is > "null". > > Is there a better way to retrieve the bundle? Is the bundle-loading or > view-root depending on a certain > render-phase? > > If nobody has an idea I would try to post it as a bug, since it is > reproducable behaviour. > > Marcel