Extending the Administration Console
BEA recommends that you define all of the text strings that your Administration Console extension displays in a message bundle. A message bundle is a collection of text files (properties files) that contain key-value pairs (properties). You create one properties file for each language or locale that you want to support. If you name the properties file per a set of file-naming conventions, the Administration Console displays strings from the properties file whose locale matches the Web browser's locale setting.
For example:myextension.myTab.introduction=This page provides monitoring data for my application.
myextension.myTab.TotalServletHits.label=Total hits for my servlet.
root-dir
is the root directory of your extensionbundle
is a unique value (do not use global
, which is the name of a WebLogic Server bundle). Consider using your company name as the value for bundle
.The bundle
.properties
file is the default file that the Administration Console uses if the Web browser or the JVM have not specified a locale. It is a required file.
root-dir
/WEB-INF/classes/
bundle
_
locale
.properties
where locale
is a locale code supported by java.util.Locale
. See Locale
in the J2SE API Specification.
For information about using message bundles, see Use a Message Bundle for Your Look and Feel and Create and Use a Message Bundle in Your JSPs.