On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Andy Kriger wrote:
> I agree absolutely - however, MessageResources has been pulled into > commons-messages which lends to using it more freely (though I haven't found > a reason to use that yet over ResourceBundle.getBundle() - since it doesn't > do any sort of automatic discovery of property files you still have to > provide a filename in your code). The reason MessageResources was created is because ResourceBundle does not implement Serializable, and some containers demand that servlet context attributes be serializable. -- Martin Cooper > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Graham [mailto:dgraham1980@;hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 15:27 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: giving biz classes access to MessageResources? > > > But you don't want to use MessageResources in your business class because > then you're tied to struts. Never import javax.servlet.* or > org.apache.struts.* in business logic classes. > > David > > > > > > > >From: "Andy Kriger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: RE: giving biz classes access to MessageResources? > >Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:16:10 -0500 > > > >to answer my own question - yes, using > >PropertyResourceBundle.getBundle(<appResFile>) and i'm guessing if i look > >further MessageResources has a static utility method that does this > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Andy Kriger [mailto:akriger@;greaterthanone.com] > >Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 14:57 > >To: Struts Users Mailing List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: RE: giving biz classes access to MessageResources? > > > > > >I'm talking about a generic class outside of the struts architecture that > >knows nothing about where the strings are coming from (except that they > >come > >from a properties file). So I don't have knowledge of Action or > >MessageResources or pageContext. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: edgar [mailto:edgar@;blue-moose.net] > >Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 14:50 > >To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > >Subject: RE: giving biz classes access to MessageResources? > > > > > >You can get the app.properties as long as you have the request > > > > MessageResources mr = (MessageResources) > >pageContext.findAttribute( Action.MESSAGES_KEY ); > > > >The MESSAGES_KEY is static so you don't need the action. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Andy Kriger [mailto:akriger@;greaterthanone.com] > >Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 2:24 PM > >To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > >Subject: giving biz classes access to MessageResources? > > > > > >I have an organizational question. On my current project, we keep SQL > >queries in our App.properties file to allow us to update the queries > >without recomiling code. However, this means that (afaik) only the > >Action can access the query Strings. So, whenever calls are made to our > >dB class, we have to pass the query as a parameter. > > > >Or do we? > >The dB is a bunch of static methods (could be a singleton just as > >easily). Is there a better way to set this up that allows the dB class > >to know about the message resources? Will a call to System.getResource > >work here? How are other folks handling this kind of thing? > > > >thx > >andy > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > >For additional commands, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > >For additional commands, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > >For additional commands, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > >For additional commands, e-mail: > ><mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:struts-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
