If I'm not mistaken, when you define a resource bundle in faces-config, you assign a bean name to it.
While its most common use is as an anchor for
JSF View resources such as messages and labels, I'm fairly certain that you could also inject this bean as a managed property into a JSF backing bean and do a standard resource lookup on it.
The main advantage of that approach is that since it's done via Inversion of Control, you don't have to hard-code the resource location in your backing bean.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
