I prefer the spec's way. I would hate to have to have the resource identifier as part of each file in the library.. Imaging naming hundreds of .gif files. This way it's just part of the directory name.
The properties file is just one file per locale, so that's not such a big deal. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Matthias Wessendorf <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I am reading SPEC 2.6.1.3 and I am not sure on the localePrefix... > > Imagine I am using a "library" in the $WEB_ROOT/resources > so the USA, the resourceIdentifier would be like: > en_US/mycorp/cool.gif > > and for Germany, it would be: > de_DE/mycorp/cool.gif > > I wonder why it was done this way ? > > For the properties files, they syntax is following this schema: > > Messages_en_US.properties > Messages_de_DE.properties > > Perhaps I am not really understanding the benefit of the JSF 2.0 > resource handling, but > why shouldn't a "library" contain multiple images (etc), like: > > /mycorp/cool_de_DE.gif > /mycorp/cool_en_US.gif > > -Matthias > > -- > Matthias Wessendorf > > blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ > sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf > twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf > -- Grant Smith
