Message keys in resource.properties

[Peter Smith <pe...@fast.fujitsu.com.au>]

Hi all,

Does anyone know if there are rules for categories/naming of message keys in the axis i18n resource.properties file? 

As far as I can tell the resource.properties contains a jumble of  i18n strings for error messages, tool usage and output, html, debugging, whatever. 

Unfortunately, the key names seem to be just ad-hoc (albeit unique) names. In particular, they give no hint to the purpose/usage of the associated string. 

The reason for asking is I was considering how much effort might be required to prefix error messages (with "[axis-NNNN] " for example) so that they could eventually be documented with some cause/user-action. But currently I can't tell the error message i18n strings from the 100s of other non error message i18n strings unless I was to search the source code for usage of all message keys - something I want to avoid if possible.

Aside: I expect I'm out of luck wishing for different key names since
a) refactoring the code to change message keys would be a big job 
b) any changes to message keys now would break user resource*.properties already in existence.

Any comments?

Thanks,
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