Package org.springframework.ui.context

Contains classes defining the application context subinterface for UI applications.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
HierarchicalThemeSource	Sub-interface of ThemeSource to be implemented by objects that can resolve theme messages hierarchically.
Theme	A Theme can resolve theme-specific messages, codes, file paths, etcetera (e.g. CSS and image files in a web environment).
ThemeSource	Interface to be implemented by objects that can resolve Themes.

Package org.springframework.ui.context Description

Contains classes defining the application context subinterface for UI applications. The theme feature is added here.

• If no UiApplicationContextUtils.THEME_SOURCE_BEAN_NAME bean is available in the context or parent context, a default ResourceBundleThemeSource will be created for requested themes. In this case, the base name of the property file will match with the theme name.
• If the bean is available in the context or parent context, a basenamePrefix can be set before the theme name for locating the property files like this:
  &lt;bean id="themeSource" class="org.springframework.ui.context.support.ResourceBundleThemeSource"&gt; <br> &lt;property name="basenamePrefix"&gt;&lt;value&gt;theme.&lt;/value&gt;&lt;/property&gt; <br>&lt;/bean&gt;
  in this case, the themes resource bundles will be named theme.<theme_name>XXX.properties.
• This can be defined at application level and/or at servlet level for web applications.
• Normal i18n features of Resource Bundles are available. So a theme message can be dependant of both theme and locale.
• If messages in the resource bundles are in fact paths to resources(css, images, ...), make sure these resources are directly available for the user and not, for example, under the WEB-INF directory.

Web packages add the resolution and the setting of the user current theme.