Has anyone found a good way to do the following.
I have a menu on a web page. The strings used to display menu items are in properties files and so the tags on the web page reference the menu property name instead of hard-coding the actual string . Therefore, I can have an English version of the property file and a Spanish version of the property file and different users will see different language versions of the menu. All that works fine. Now the customer wants to be able to change the translations of the strings on the fly. It's easy enough to give them a web page that allows them to look at the various strings and type in a new/different Spanish version of an English string. But writing that out to the property file doesn't cause Struts2 to reload the property file and so anyone looking at a web page will see the old translation and not the new translation. I can see how to do this by doing a custom version of the struts tags that get the property values and completely re-implement the property support in struts/java. But, it seems like there should be an easier way. Is there a way to get at the properties class instances (for different languages) that are loaded into the jvm and change the values on the fly? I'd like to piggyback on the existing java support for the java properties class (and maybe put the different properties out in a database instead of in property files). Does anyone have any suggestions?
