Luc Bors Weblog

As an ADF consultant I get lots and lots of questions on ADF (duh..). I usually answer these using a simple sample and some explanations. These effort are hardly ever documented by me. I decided to use this Blog to write all these tiny things down for future 'ADF generations'. From now on this Blog will host ADF 11g Quickies.

One of the questions I got lately is how to select a specific text from a resource bundle and use it in an ADF Application. This is easy and can be done as shown below. All you need is a resourcebundle containing the keys and text values, a selectcomponent to set the actual key and some java code in a valueChangeListener to search the resourcebundle for the key. So first create the resourceBundle file to hold the key/value pairs for the text resources. Next implement the page holding the selectcomponent, and an output component to show the value retrieved from the resourcebundle. 1: <af:panelGroupLayout id="pgl1"> 2: <af:selectOneChoice valueChangeListener="#{pageFlowScope.resourceBundleManager.listEntryChanged}" 3: id="soc1" autoSubmit="true" valuePassThru="true" 4: label="#{viewcontrollerBundle.SEL_RESOURCE_KEY}"> 5: <af:selectItem label="Value 1" val...