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Asked: 2026-05-13T22:56:00+00:00

Does Java have an equivalent to .NET resource (.resx) files for localization? In .NET,

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Does Java have an equivalent to .NET resource (.resx) files for localization?

In .NET, you can define resources as key-value pairs within a standard XML document.

The resource files are named according to the culture. For example:

myresources.resx

myresources.en-us.resx

myresources.fr-fr.resx

myresources.de-de.resx

Is there an equivalent in Java? Are the similar naming conventions used for files?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Java equivalent is called ResourceBundle. Resource Bundle are java properties file (with a .properties file extension that can be accessed using java.util.ResourceBundle class) that contains locale-specific data.

    From your example, 

    myresources.resx
myresources.en-us.resx
myresources.fr-fr.resx
myresources.de-de.resx

    Is equivalent to (in java)

    myresources.properties
myresources_en_US.properties
myresources_fr_FR.properties
myresources_de_DE.properties

    For Technical data on ResourceBundle check this Oracle article here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/i18n/resbundle/concept.html

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