with the current version of antville in cvs and the recent helma snapshot helma-20020531-fc.jar as well as helma-20020607.jar i get an error when trying to create a new goodie:

Runtime error The property 'name' is not defined in object 'C:\localhost\balls.fla' detected at line 24 of function 'evalGoodie' in file: 'c:\helma\apps\antville\goodiemgr\objectFunctions.js' called at line 12 of function 'create_action' in string starting with: 'function create_action (arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7, arg8, arg9, arg10) {'...

as a follow-up to hannes' timezone-support i changed the way the application-messages of antville are generated. app-messages are now defined in central files (called 'messages_[lang].js', where [lang] should be the two-character-code of the language (e.g. "en", "de" ...). those messages are basically skins and are stored in an object-tree beneath app.data[lang], currently divided in two "classes" of messages: "error" and "confirm". messages can be retrieved using several global functions (in global/objectFunctions.js). variable values are passed to the skins (either one uses a single string which will be embedded instead of the placeholder <% param.value1 %> or an array which values can be referenced using .value1, .value2 and so on).

depending on helmas or antvilles language setting (in server.properties resp. app.properties) or a weblog's language antville tries to retrieve the requested message. if it can't be found, it will retrieve the english version (this is currently hardcoded, but i'll change that within the upcoming antville application setup). right now there are just two languages available: english and german (my spanish is still too bad, not to mention catalan ;-)

i committed the changes into a new branch in CVS called grob_messages. use cvs update -r grob_messages to check out.

please give it a try and post your opinion about it. hope you like it.