Registering Messages

If you create custom messages, you must make them available at application startup time. You do this in one of two ways: by queuing the message onto the FacesContext instance programmatically (as described in Performing Localization, page 741) or by registering the messages with your application using the application configuration resource file.

Here is the part of the file that registers the messages for the Duke's Bookstore application:

<application>
  <message-bundle>
    resources.ApplicationMessages
  </message-bundle>
  <locale-config>
    <default-locale>en</default-locale>
    <supported-locale>es</supported-locale>
  </locale-config>
</application>

This set of elements will cause your Application instance to be populated with the ...

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