Resource Bundle - make reference to other strings?

Question

can I make references within a resource bundle?

eg:

label.name=John
label.surname=Doe

label.fullname=<label.name> <label.surename>

?

Answer 1

you can do it like this

label.fullname = {0} {1} 

and while rendering it

<h:outputFormat value="#{bundle.label.fullname}">
  <f:param value="#{bundle.label.name}"/>
  <f:param value="#{bundle.label.surname}"/>
</h:outputFormat> 

or you could try this out

CONST_1 = name
CONST_2 = surname
fullname = {CONST_1}  {CONST_2}

from here

Answer 2

For anyone else who stumbles upon this post, I figured I would share a recent find.

Using commons-configuration from Apache Commons, you can reference other properties in the same file as follows:

foo=somevalue
foo.bar=${foo}