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};
}
This bundle covers the English-language locale
en
. It provides specific
values for each localizable string. The next bundle uses the inheritance
feature:
public class GlobalRes_en_AU extends ListResourceBundle {
// mostly like basic English - our parent bundle
public Object[][] getContents() { return contents; }
private static final Object[][] contents = {
{ GlobalRes.HELLO, "G'day" },
};
}
This bundle is for English speakers from Australia (
AU
). It provides
a more colloquial version of the
HELLO
string and inherits all other
strings from the general English locale
GlobalRes_en
. Whenever a re-
source bundle is instantiated, its parent chain is established. This pro-
ceeds by successively dropping the variant, country, and language com-
ponents from the base bundle name and instantiating those bundles if
they exist. If they do exist then
setParent
is called on the preceding
bundle passing the new bundle as the parent. So in our example, when
GlobalRes_en_AU
is created, the system will create
GlobalRes_en
and set it
as the parent of
GlobalRes_en_AU
. In turn, the parent of
GlobalRes_en
will
be the base bundle
GlobalRes
.
Given these classes, someone with an English-language locale (
en
)
would get the values returned by
GlobalRes_en
unless the locale also
specified the country Australia (
AU
), in which case values from
Glob-
alRes_en_AU
would be used. Everyone else would see those in
GlobalRes
.
