The following program is based on the code used in 'javac' to obtain
the error message file. It illustrates the underlying cause of compiler
bug 4104318, which is in fact a failure in 'ResourceBundle.getBundle'.

import java.util.*;

public class Test {
    
    private static ResourceBundle messageRB;

    /**
     * Initialize ResourceBundle
     */
    static void initResource() {
try {
messageRB =
ResourceBundle.getBundle("sun.tools.javac.resources.javac");
System.out.println("got resource: " + messageRB);
} catch (MissingResourceException e) {
System.out.println("couldn't get resource");
}
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
initResource();
    }

}

This example reports failure on the win32 platform only in the case that
sun/tools/java/resources/javac.properties is in the lib/classes.zip file.
In a build workspace, or with sun/tools/java/resources/javac.properties
on the classpath in unpacked form, the example succeeds.

This behavior can be observed in the promoted 1.1.6 build as of 1/15/98.

william.maddox@Eng 1998-01-15