RE: [Springframework-rcp-dev] Dumb Question

[Keith D. <kd...@cs...>]

Andrew,

 

Your message source bean definition looks fine to me, pulling messages from
the root of your classpath, which I assume to be the /src directory.  Plus,
if there was a problem initializing the message source locations, it would
certainly tell you.

 

Do you have an application object configurer bean defined in your context?
See the petclinic application-context.xml example.  What this does is
configure all application objects by bean name after they are instantiated
by spring.  It is a bean post processor.  This is used to wire up
internationalized display properties for making those objects fit for
display in the GUI.  So for example, when the "applicationInfo" bean is
instantiated, the configurer will lookup the title, caption, and description
from the message source (applicationInfo.title, applicationInfo.caption,
applicationInfo.description, respectively) and inject them into your
ApplicationInfo bean.  Without the configurer defined, none of this will
happen.

 

The configurer is there to remove a good deal of the configuration you must
specify in the context file.  You don't have to use it, but I recommend it.
If you don't, you must fully define all required properties in the context
file.

 

Keith

 

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From: spr...@li...
[mailto:spr...@li...] On Behalf Of
Andrew Todd
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 5:10 PM
To: Spring Framework Rich Client Platform
Subject: [Springframework-rcp-dev] Dumb Question

 

Obviously this will be a dumb question, but I can't get the
message.properties file to be read, which causes the application NOT to load
- error about label required.
Now, I have my messages.properties file in the src directory 
My application-context.xml has:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans>
<bean id="application"
      class="org.springframework.rcp.application.Application">
    <constructor-arg index="0">
        <ref bean="applicationInfo"/>
    </constructor-arg>
  </bean>

  <bean id="applicationInfo"
class="org.springframework.rcp.application.ApplicationInfo">
  <property name="version"><value>1.0</value></property>
  <property name="buildId"><value>20040530001</value></property>
  </bean>

<bean  id="messageSource" 
 
class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
    <property name="basenames">
    <list>
    <value>messages</value>
    </list>
    </property>
  </bean>
</beans>

My messages.properties file has:
applicationInfo.title=Test Application
applicationInfo.caption=Test Application Caption, Spring RCP
applicationInfo.description=Test Spring RCP

And what happens is that the two properties in the application exist fine,
but the properties from messages.properties does not - obviously a problem
with the messageSource section of the application-context, but what?

My directory structure is:
/src
/src/messages.properties
/src/org/at/Start.java
/resources/application-context.xml




Andrew