This class is a concrete subclass of ResourceBundle. It reads a Properties file from a specified InputStream and implements the ResourceBundle API for looking up named resources from the resulting Properties object. A Properties file contains lines of the form:

name=value

Each such line defines a named property with the specified String value. Although you can instantiate a PropertyResourceBundle yourself, it is more common to simply define a Properties file and then allow ResourceBundle.getBundle( ) to look up that file and return the necessary PropertyResourceBundle object. See also Properties and ResourceBundle.

Figure 16-50. java.util.PropertyResourceBundle

public class PropertyResourceBundle extends ResourceBundle {
// Public Constructors
     public PropertyResourceBundle(java.io.InputStream stream) throws java.io.IOException;  
// Public Methods Overriding ResourceBundle
     public Enumeration<String> getKeys( );  
     public Object handleGetObject(String key);  
}