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Rules for Editing Message Resource Files

The following syntactic rules apply when editing the message resource files.

• All entries are set using the method ht.put("id", "message") where id is the numeric (or text) ID of the message, and, message is the actual localized message text.
• All substituted variables in the message are indicated by curly braces {n}, where n is the numerical index of the data in the parameter array passed to the message formatting utility.
• Use /* … */ for all comments.
• Use a UTF-8 Unicode capable editor, for example, Microsoft Software Development Editor. Do not use Notepad.

Note: When updating messages, it is necessary to rebuild the runtime or re-assemble the application to include the changes in the application environment.

A re-assembled application must be redeployed to the application server to make the changed message classes available.

When using a global runtime for all applications, the new runtime must be redeployed to the application server, and the application server must be reset to read the new runtime.