Custom Resource Bundle

The Java™ API enables you to fetch custom messages from your custom message XML file.

To use a custom message, add the message in the following format to the resource XML file stored in the $TOP/locales/xy_XY/custom_resource_bundle directory, where xy is the language identifier and XY is a valid region identifier for the language. The message is picked up by the Java API com.ibm.pim.utils.MessageBundle automatically, and is then available for your code. In the sample code, the resource XML file is in the $TOP/locales/en_US/custom_resource_bundle directory to provide the custom resource bundle in English (United States) locale:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<trigoResources locale="en_US" description="English (US)" version="1.0">
 <message id="MESSAGE_ID01"><![CDATA[Hello, World!]]></message>
 <message id="MESSAGE_ID02"><![CDATA[Dear {0}, Welcome to IBM Product Master]]></message>
</trigoResources>

You can access the custom message through the following sample code:

  Context pimctx = PIMContextFactory.getContext("Admin","trinitron","trigo");
  String message = pimctx.getMessageBundle().getMessage("CUSTOM.MESSAGE_ID02",new String [] {"Trinitron"});