Eclipse Plugin deletes localization.properties file upon deployment

[Former Member]

hello,

i am using PDK 5.0.5.0 and Eclipse plugin. i am trying to use the internalization services of the enterprise portal. as instructed by the portal documentation, i place my language-specific strings in /private/classes/localization.properties and /private/classes/localization_en.properties files. in my java code (that extends the JSPDynPage class), i do request.getResourceBundle() etc.

the problem is, whenever i deploy the eclipse project, it deletes my localization.properties files. as a result, my .par file doesn't contain the localization.properties files.this causes the loading of my iView to fail, at the lline where it tries to retrieve the resource bundle.

how do i get the eclipse plugin to stop deleting the localization.properties files? or alternatively, how do i add the localization.properties files including the /private/classes/ path to the .par file and then somehow deploy the .par file from the PDK itself? any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

[Former Member]

Hi, you are unfortunately storing the .properties files in the output folder of Eclipse ("/Classes..."). This folder is cleaned everytime you rebuild the project (e.g. on export to .par file) by Eclipse. You have to store the .properties files under the private/src folder. The .properties files will be copied by Eclipse into the outputfolder "/classes" so you do not loose them again.

Bye Sigi

[Former Member]

wonderful! thanks for the tip, it works as a charm.

perhaps the PDK documentation on the subject should be changed to instruct people to place the localization.properties files under /private/src/ instead of /private/classes/, when using Eclipse....

[Former Member]

ok, i've figured out how to keep the localization*.properties files in my project's /private/classes/ directory. it is an Eclispse thing.

in the Window/Preferences menu, select Java/Compiler. then the last tab Build Path, uncheck the box "Scrub output folders on full build". it will prevent the deletion of the entire /private/classes/ folder upon deployment of the project.

now the question still remains: how to tell the EP plugin to include the /private/classes/localization*.properties files in the .par file? this is surly an SAP plugin thing. would someone from SAP comment on this please? thanks.