1) It definitely breaks the resource bundle editor plugin. I know properties files can have the property names and values seperated by a space (and I think a colon if I remember right), but I've never seen anyone NOT use the equals sign. Any reason you've moved to spaces as default? 2) will do! Thanks. 3) yes, that's what I had to do. I actually just changed my file association. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4075698#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...