In my database, I have country codes. CA for Canada, US for the States, DE for Germany, etc.
I'd like to have "friendly" names associated with each, and I'd like to put them in the application.properties so that they can be localized for different languages. So I put some entries into the resources file like so: countryname.CA=Canada countryname.DE=Germany countryname.US=United States And in a request-scope arraylist bean, called countrycodes, I have the list: CA, DE, US... I'd like to be able to populate a selection list that displays friendly names, and returns the countrycodes as values. Now I'm trying to figure out how to construct the struts-bean message key to access the long names. I've tried several approaches and have only succeeded in crashing the servlet compiler. Have I painted myself into a corner with this approach, or is it doable? Jefficus
