Roadmap

For 0.3

Use ServiceProvider

A good way for the library to provide a centralized way to register and access bundles.

Discussion here.

MessageFormat support

Provide methods .getString(String, Object, Object...) and .getString(Locale, String, Object, Object...) using MessageFormat to generate messages.

In the future

In order, and maybe/maybe not...

Legacy ResourceBundle support?

That is, provide a way to read property files using ISO-8859-1.

Not sure whether it is of any use. If this is provided, maybe also provide a conversion utility from these bundles to new bundles?

More generic: support for using "arbitrary" charsets to read property files?

That would be nice. But useful? Good question.

Loading/caching control?

Right now the loading and caching policy is fixed (except you can specify the timeout you want for loading). Give more control? Like, for instance, expiration (which currently doesn't happen)?

Salvage some functionality of ResourceBundle.Control?

Seen on Stack Overflow: you can use the class above to return a list of relevant locales for the locale of your choice. Right now, this logic is hardcoded. Is it worth it to provide an override in this library?