Question

By default, ValidationMessages.properties can be located in root of my classpath. Can I change the location of this file like com.myapp.Anything.properties?

Answer 1

From the JSR-303 specification:

4.3.1.1. Default message interpolation algorithm The default message interpolator uses the following steps:

1. Message parameters are extracted from the message string and used as keys to search the ResourceBundle named ValidationMessages (often
   materialized as the property file /ValidationMessages.properties and
   its locale variations) using the defined locale (see below). If a
   property is found, the message parameter is re- placed with the
   property value in the message string. Step 1 is applied recursively
   until no replacement is per- formed (i.e. a message parameter value
   can itself contain a message parameter).

It seems that this is the default and the suggestion. To back this up the JSR-303 TCK uses TestNG to move them to the “WEB-INF/classes/” directory which is the same as “./” on the resources classpath.

(You can experiment with it but that’s about all I can figure out.)

Sorry.