On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, SCHACHTER,MICHAEL (HP-NewJersey,ex2) wrote:
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:12:15 -0400
> From: "SCHACHTER,MICHAEL (HP-NewJersey,ex2)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] XMLMessageResources
>
> Martin,
>
> In the jakarta-commons-sandbox, there's a folder
> called "resources" containing Struts MessageResources
> and some other classes that I was working on, but had
> to put off for a while.
>
Yep.
> It seemed before that MessageResources were being
> factored out of Struts and into jakarta-commons, and if this
> is still the case (Craig?), I can free up some time now
> to finish off the remaining code and maybe go 1.0 with
> it, along with your XmlMessageResources class. Do you
> have committer access to the sandbox?
>
>
I would like to see this finished, so we can migrate Struts 1.1 to it.
Any Jakarta committer (on any project) can have write access to the
jakarta-commons-sandbox repository -- let me know if you have any problems
with this.
Craig
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 2:08 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] XMLMessageResources
>
>
> The Struts 1.1 TODO list contains the following item:
>
> "XmlMessageResources. Implementation of MessageResources and
> MessageResourcesFactory that loads message keys and strings from one or more
> XML resources or files."
>
> I have an implementation of this which I would like to contribute to Struts.
> The implementation is a drop-in replacement for the existing
> PropertyMessageResources. In fact, it is derived from it, and so shares the
> same file naming scheme for locale-specific messages.
>
> Here's a simple example of what an XML message file would look like:
>
> ---------- begin example ----------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> <messages>
> <message key="validation.username.required">You must enter a
> username</message>
> <message key="validation.password.required">You must enter a
> password</message>
> <message key="validation.password.match">Confirmation password does not
> match</message>
> </messages>
> ---------- end example ----------
>
> The first line of the example provides a hint as to why I did not attempt to
> incorporate messages for more than one locale into a single XML file.
> Messages for different locales may well be specified using different
> character encodings. In addition, maintaining the messages from each locale
> in a different XML file avoids loading locales unnecessarily.
>
> To use this implementation, all that is required is to specify the 'factory'
> init-param in your web.xml file, and to make sure that the 'application'
> init-param refers to an XML resource.
>
> What do people think about incorporating this into the Struts 1.1 code base?
>
> --
> Martin Cooper
>
>
>
