src/share/classes/java/util/ResourceBundle.java

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       * Queue for reference objects referring to class loaders or bundles.
       */
      private static final ReferenceQueue<Object> referenceQueue = new ReferenceQueue<>();
  
      /**
+      * Returns the base name of this bundle, if known.
+      *
+      * This is the value of the {@code baseName} parameter that was passed to
+      * the {@code ResourceBundle.getBundle(...)} method  when the resource
+      * bundle was loaded.
+      *
+      * <p><b>Note:</b>The <code>baseName</code> should be a fully
+      * qualified class name. However, for compatibility with earlier versions,
+      * Sun's Java SE Runtime Environments do not verify this, and so it is
+      * possible to access <code>PropertyResourceBundle</code>s by specifying a
+      * path name (using "/") instead of a fully qualified class name (using
+      * "."). It is possible that this method will return such a pathName if
+      * that is what was given to the {@code ResourceBundle.getBundle(...)}
+      * method when the resource bundle was loaded.
+      *
+      * @return The base name of the resource bundle, a fully qualified
+      *         class name. May be null if the resource
+      *         bundle was not loaded through one of the
+      *         {@code ResourceBundle.getBundle(...)} methods.
+      *
+      * @since 1.8
+      */
+     public String getBaseBundleName() {
+         return name;
+     }
+ 
+     /**
       * The parent bundle of this bundle.
       * The parent bundle is searched by {@link #getObject getObject}
       * when this bundle does not contain a particular resource.
       */
      protected ResourceBundle parent = null;