Bug 140860 ResourceLocator does not locate externalized strings stored in .properties files
I have been investigating the support to add my custom resource locator to find my externalized properties files and I want to make sure that I will have the right support. I looked at the BIRT code and found that org.eclipse.birt.report.model.core.BundleHelper does not use the IResourceLocator to find the .properties file. Instead it has a "msgFolder" attribute that holds the directory path of the resource files. However this is not going to work for me. I would like the BundleHelper class to make a call to the IResourceLocator to find the .properties files. Could the component owner change this bug to the right component.
model/org.eclipse.birt.report.model/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/model/core/BundleHelper.java
* @param msgFolder
	 *            directory where to locates the message files.
	 * @param baseName
	 *            base name of the resource bundle. The name is a common base
	 *            name
	 * @return a correspondent helper instance. Return <code>null</code> if
	 *         the <code>msgFolder</code> is null or not a directory.
	 *  
	 */
	public static BundleHelper getHelper( File msgFolder, String baseName )
	{
		if ( msgFolder == null || !msgFolder.isDirectory( ) )
			return null;
		return new BundleHelper( msgFolder, baseName );
	}
	/**
	 * Return a collection of user-defined message keys in the referenced
	 * message files for the given locale. If the input <code>locale</code> is
	 * <code>null</code>, the locale for the current thread will be used
	 * instead.
	 * 
	 * @param locale
	 *            locale to use when finding the bundles.
	 * @return a list of user-defined message keys in the referenced message
	 *         files.
	 */
	public Collection getMessageKeys( ULocale locale )
	{
		Set keys = new LinkedHashSet( );
		Iterator bundleIter = gatherMessageBundles( locale ).iterator( );