ADF: Text resource issue

Status: Resolved
JDeveloper: 11.1.1.1.0
WebLogic: 10.3.1

Last week I came accross a cool blog about ADF BUGS FACTS. The author inspired me to write myself about similiar experiences with ADF11/JDeveloper. So today I will describe a bug concerning the i18n capabilities in ADF11.

First I have to mention tha the support for i18n text resources improved very well with JDev11 but there is a case when things do not work correctly. So in the case your ViewController project name contains a dash. things do not work anymore as expected. So in our company we have following convention to name our applications/projects.

customer-app
      app-model
      app-webui

With that convention your not able to work with the “select text resource” feature on ADF Faces Pages, because invalid code is generated. So here is the example

Because the ViewController project is called myapp-ui you get the following buggy code

Solution

Solution is to remove the dash in c:set and of course all EL references.

<c:set var="myappuiBundle"
     value="#{adfBundle['de.team.training.i18n.myapp-uiBundle']}"/>

and

<af:outputText value="#{myappuiBundle.MY_APPLICATION_TITLE}" id="ot1"/>

After this fix the text resource is resolved correctly

Things learned

Don’t: use dashes (-) in project names! This may cause trouble in development of fusion web applications.

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Comment from Milkbird: Thanks for your reference Andreas. I think this is realy usefull, since someone could loose a lot of time to find out what is wrong and how to fix it.