<i18n dev> Do developers or end-users create currency.properties?

[Naoto Sato]

Hi Alan,

I think it's a good idea to provide a way to specify the currency 
properties file location. As to whether it belongs to spec or not, I 
think we need make it as part of spec, otherwise it may not conform to 
the existing spec, i.e., lib/currency.properties will not be read if 
this new mechanism is invoked.

Naoto

On 11/21/12 9:45 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 16/10/2012 17:50, Naoto Sato wrote:
>> The idea was that "currency.properties" was intended for the
>> "emergency" situation, where JRE's update could not keep up with
>> customers' needs. The assumption was JRE's lib/currency.data should
>> contain the latest currency data with the JRE updates.
>>
>> Naoto
> If there is a need for an override mechanism then the simplest might be
> to just support a system property that allows a properties file to
> specified with the overridden currency data. This seems preferable to
> copying it into the ${java.home}/lib directory. If you agree then the
> question becomes whether this should be part of the specification or
> something that is JDK specific. I've put a first version here and
> perhaps we can discuss this with a view to coming up with a solution:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8003846/webrev/
>
> It basically just allows java.util.data.currency to be set to the
> location of a currency properties file. If not defined then it will look
> in ${java.home}/lib as before so we get compatibility with jdk7.
>
> -Alan.