coming along nicely

My Tapestry-style web framework is coming along very nicely written in
freemarker.

Kudos to such a great library.

I have a question about resource bundles. There are three things I do when a
user makes a URL request

/context/Home (does the following)

a) look for x.y.z.Home.class if it exists
b) look for Home.ftl in various directories
c) load x.y.z.Home.properties if it exists

All of this works great - but one issue I am having with the properties
file. I am essentially loading a ResourcBundle and placing it into the root
hashmap when processing the template:

                // bundle
                try
                {
                    resourceBundle =
ResourceBundle.getBundle(javaClassName);
                }
                catch (MissingResourceException e)
                {
                    if (log.isDebugEnabled())
                        log.debug("No resource bundle defined for this
request: " + javaClassName);
                }

<snip/>

        try
        {
            // invoke the class
            HashMap<String, Object> templateMap = getValuesForThisPage();

            // resource bundle
            if (resourceBundle != null)
            {
                templateMap.put(RESOURCE_BUNDLE_KEY, resourceBundle);
            }

            // prep the template engine
            PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
            Template template =
templateEngine.getTemplate(defaultTemplatePath);

            // write the template
            template.process(templateMap, out);
        }


All of this works just fine ... but when I echo values from the
resourceBundle in the template, it doesn't work for anything nested one or
more level deep:

IE:

# Contact.properties
[email protected]
[email protected]

Contact.ftl
        <ul>
            <li>${msg.faq}</li>
            <li>${msg.email.tutorial}</li>
        </ul>


Now, <li>${msg.faq}</li> shows up just fine but
<li>${msg.email.tutorial}</li> is a problem:

No such key: email
The problematic instruction:
----------
==> ${msg.email.tutorial} [on line 13, column 29 in support/Contact.ftl]

So, before I spend a few hours digging to see if I'm somehow mismanaging the
ResourceBundle ... can someone chime is - is this a limitation or expected
behavior or can you see something I am doing incorrectly. I started looking
at ResourceBundleModel but there isn't a whole lof of explanatory docs there
for those of us not even sure if our ResourceBundle code is correct.

As a side note ... anyone have an example using ResourceBundleModel.format?

Thanks in advance,

-Luther

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