ResourceBundle prints a lot of unnecessary exceptions when loading bundles

When "getBundle" is searching for an appropriate bundle for a bundle
name and locale, it complains along the way about every bundle it
doesn't find even if an appropriate bundle is later found. For example,
if you are looking for a bundle name of FooBundle and the locale
fr_FR....getBundle prints an exception about not finding FooBundle_fr_FR
even if it later finds FooBundle_fr.

It's so noisy that it obscures any real errors that the program might
be generating.



ingrid.yao@Eng 1998-01-20

Oracle still see the problem on 1.1.6D build. with the following
error messages show on console:

 can't find resource for sun.awt.windows.awtLocalization_en_US
 Using default MenuItem font

When Java looks for language/territory specific resource bundles, it reports
unnecessary exceptions even when it finds the resource bundles it is looking
for. Please note that this bug is *not* about any stack trace output when
using the resource bundles; this bug is about the exceptions.
 
Previously, Oracle filed 4060778 (ResouceBundle/AppletClassLoader
interaction
bug), which was about both the stack trace output *and* the exceptions
generated when using resource bundles. 4060778 was marked as fixed in 1.1.4,
but only the stack trace output was fixed, and the exceptions were not
addressed. 4050902 dealt solely with the exceptions, but JavaSoft mistakenly
closed this bug as fixed too.
 
So JavaSoft closed both 4060778 and 4050902 thinking the bug had been fully
fixed, even though they've only addressed the stack trace part. Oracle need to
reopen 4050902 to address the exceptions.
 
Feb 3, 1998 Marianne Mueller:
Oracle finds that this bug is present in 1.1.6F. This is one of Oracle's
must-fix bugs for 1.1.6FCS. Here's a test case from Oracle:

BuggyBundle.html:
<applet code="BuggyLoader" height=50 width=100></applet>

BuggyBundle.java:
import java.util.ListResourceBundle;
public class BuggyBundle extends ListResourceBundle
{
    public Object[][] getContents()
    {
        return sMessageStrings;
    }
    static final private Object[][] sMessageStrings =
    {
        {"ACCCLS","FRM-99999: Internal Error: Failed to access Java Class.\nFull Details: {0}"}
    };
}

BuggyLoader.java:
import java.util.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class BuggyLoader
       extends Applet
{
    public BuggyLoader()
    {
        add(new TextField(getMessage("ACCCLS", Locale.getDefault())));
    }
    public void start()
    {
    }
    public final String getMessage(String key, Locale locale)
    {
        String formattedMsg;
        try
        {
            ResourceBundle msgBundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("BuggyBundle",
                                                                locale);
            formattedMsg = msgBundle.getString(key);
        }
        catch ( Exception e )
        {
            formattedMsg = "error: " + e.toString();
        }
        return formattedMsg;
    }
}



When this is run from appletviewer, the console window displays
"File not found when looking for: BuggyBundle_en" a number of times.