midlets archive - a way to store strings portable

[Gyro]

Hi. please suggest method/technique to store strings in a midlet jar
archive portable.
I wanna a ui strings to be stored in a file for better/easy
internationalisation. Is a plain text files with extensions
corresponding to current phone locale is a good way? What you think?

 

[Darryl Pierce]

Hi. please suggest method/technique to store strings in a midlet jar
archive portable.
I wanna a ui strings to be stored in a file for better/easy
internationalisation. Is a plain text files with extensions
corresponding to current phone locale is a good way? What you think?

You can do it that way, using a text file in the JAR and then accessing
it via Class.getResourceAsStream(String). Another way (and one I prefer)
is to create a binary file at build-time using DataOutputStream. Then
you can access the data at runtime using a DataInputStream and save
yourself all of the parsing time needed to read in a straight text file.