How can I get a message bundle string from inside a managed bean?

Question

I would like to be able to retrieve a string from a message bundle from inside a JSF 2 managed bean. This would be done in situations where the string is used as the summary

Answer 1

You can get the full qualified bundle name of by Application#getMessageBundle(). You can get the current locale by UIViewRoot#getLocale(). You can get a ResourceBundle out of a full qualified bundle name and the locale by ResourceBundle#getBundle().

So, summarized:

FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
String messageBundleName = facesContext.getApplication().getMessageBundle();
Locale locale = facesContext.getViewRoot().getLocale();
ResourceBundle bundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle(messageBundleName, locale);
// ...

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Update: as per the mistake in the question, you actually want to get the bundle which is identified by the of . This is unfortunately not directly available by a standard JSF API. You've either to hardcode the same base name in the code and substitute the messageBundleName in the above example with it, or to inject it as a managed property on in a request scoped bean:

@ManagedProperty("#{msg}")
private ResourceBundle bundle; // +setter