Re: [equinox-dev] Accessing ResourceBundles from a bundle

[Jeff McAffer <Jeff_McAffer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think that we actually need to call this function out on Bundle or some such.  It is an implementation detail.  If a particular implementation uses multiple classloaders or fragments or... it still has to ensure that it loads things correctly.   For example, if my implementation uses one loader per jar and the jars are spec'd as a.jar, b.jar and c.jar in the manifest, a class in b.jar should still be able to see the classes in a.jar.  The are all in the same bundle.  Likewise for resources.  

I would expect this support to come at the classloader level by having the classloaders know that they are cooperating to form a single context (the bundle).

Jeff

Olivier Gruber <ogruber@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 07/18/2003 12:55 PM

To:        BJ Hargrave <hargrave@xxxxxxxxxx>         cc:        equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx, Pascal Rapicault/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA         Subject:        Re: [equinox-dev] Accessing ResourceBundles from a bundle

Correct BJ. 

This is what I raised as an issue regarding ResourceBundle when we were all together 
in Ottawa. Remember? 

I added the support on a bundle to support finding the resource across the 
different class loaders of a bundle, including fragment support.

This is part of looking at Bundle like a replacement for the functionality of ClassLoaders: 

        - find resources 
        - get ResourceBundle 
        - load classes 

Best regards,

Olivier Gruber, Ph.D.
Persistent & Distributed Object Platforms and Frameworks
IBM TJ Watson Research Center

BJ Hargrave/Austin/IBM@IBMUS Sent by: equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 07/18/2003 11:47 AM

To:        "Pascal Rapicault" <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx>        cc:        equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx        Subject:        Re: [equinox-dev] Accessing ResourceBundles from a bundle

From looking at the ResourceBundle class, ResourceBundle.getBundle(String) will use the context class loader of the caller to locate the resource bundle. This means it will use the classloader of the bundle which loaded the class which defines the method which calls ResourceBundle.getBundle(String). 

So if the class which defines the method comes from a different bundle (imported package) than the resource, the resource probably will not be located. 

BJ Hargrave
Senior Software Engineer, IBM Pervasive Computing - Austin, TX
OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance
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"Pascal Rapicault" <Pascal_Rapicault@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: equinox-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 2003-07-18 10:32 AM

To:        equinox-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx       cc:               Subject:        [equinox-dev] Accessing ResourceBundles from a bundle

Hi, 

Is there any knwon problem using the java API   ResourceBundle.getResourceBundle(String baseName) from the code of a bundle? 
It does not work in the implementation that I have. 

      PaScaL