public CustomMessageResources (List configFiles) {
                                super(null, null);
                                this.bundles = configFiles;
                }
                /** (non-Javadoc)
                 
* @see org.apache.struts.util.MessageResources#getMessage
(java.util.Locale, java.lang.String)
                 */
                public String getMessage(Locale locale, String key) {
                                
                                String message = null;
                                //initialise the variables we need
                                String localeKey = "";
                                if(!super.defaultLocale.equals(locale)){
                                                this.localeKey(locale);
                                }                             
                                //go through all the resource bundle files and load them
                                for (int i = 0; i < bundles.size(); i++) {
                                String config = (String)bundles.get(i);
this.loadBundle(localeKey, config);
//now look if the message can be found
message = (String)resourceMap.get(key);
//message found, so get out of the loop
if(message !=null){
break;
}else{

System.out.println("COULD NOT FIND RESOURCE FILE VALUE FOR KEY: "+key);
}
}
return message;
}   

    /**
     * Loads the resource bundle based on the locale.
     * @param localeKey The locale
     * @param config The resource file.
     */
protected void loadBundle(String localeKey, String config) {

        String fileName = null;
        InputStream inStream = null;
        Properties props = new Properties();
        //first check if this bundle is alreay loaded previously
        if (bundlesLoaded.get(config) != null) {
return;
        }
        //otherwise mark this bundle being loaded
        this.bundlesLoaded.put(config, localeKey);
        // Set up to load the property resource for this locale key, if we can
        fileName = config.replace('.', '/');
        if (localeKey.length() > 0) {
            fileName += "_" + localeKey;
    }
    fileName += ".properties";

    //obtain a class loader
    ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
    //if this classloader is null, use the class loader used to load this class
    if(classLoader ==null){
        classLoader = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
    }    
    //load the file as Stream
    inStream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream(fileName);      
    //check if the Stream in not null
    if(inStream!=null){
        //populate the properties from this input Stream
    try {
        props.load(inStream);
    } catch (IOException e) {
       // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }finally{
    try {
        inStream.close();
    } catch (IOException e1) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }

    }
        
        //now retrieve the key value pairs from the resource file and 
        //put it in the map
        synchronized(this.resourceMap){
Iterator iterator = props.keySet().iterator();

        while(iterator.hasNext()){
          String key = (String)iterator.next();
          //String messageKey = this.messageKey(localeKey,key);
          String value = props.getProperty(key);  
            this.resourceMap.put(key,value);
}
}          

                }else{
                                  
 System.out.println("COULD NOT LOAD RESOURCE FILE: "+fileName);
                                }
                   
                             
                }