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The following table describes the child element of the message element.

method

None

Optional

Method signature for formatting this message.
The syntax is a standard Java method signature, less
return type, qualifiers, semicolon, and extensions.
The return type is always

String

. Argument types

can be any Java primitive or class. Classes must be
fully qualified if not in

java.lang

. Classes must

also conform to

java.text.MessageFormat

conventions. In general, class arguments should
have a useful

toString()

method, and the

corresponding

MessageFormat

placeholders

must be strings; they must be of the form

{n}

Argument names can be any valid name. There can
be no more than 10 arguments.
For each argument there must be at least one
corresponding placeholder in the

messagebody

element described below. Placeholders are of the
form

{n}

{n,number}

{n,date}

Example:

method="getNoAuthorization
(String filename, java.util.Date
creDate)"

This example would result in a method in the

TextFormatter

class as follows:

public String getNoAuthorization
(String filename, java.util.Date
creDate)

Attribute

Default

Required/
Optional

Description