Running Java code under different locle

I was recently looking at a piece of code where in we are using a file writer to write a WSDL file. The piece of code was working perfectly fine on Windows. When we wanted to run the same piece of code on Solaris 10 with Japanese Encoding(ja). it was giving the following exception:

WSDLException: faultCode=OTHER_ERROR: WSDLException: faultCode=CONFIGURATION_ERROR: Unsupported Java encoding for
writing wsdl file: 'EUC_JP_Solaris'.:

I tried to debug the same and the following code was causing the issue.

final WSDLWriter writer = WSDLGenerator.factory.newWSDLWriter();
final String outputFileName = this.wsdlFileLocation + "/" + this.mWSDLFileName + ".wsdl";
final Writer sink = new FileWriter(outputFileName);
writer.writeWSDL(this.def, sink);

Here the java.io.FileWriter extended from java.io.Writer and do not have a way to specify the encoding. It seems to take the default encoding from the underlying platform. Solaris 1o running in Japanese locale was returning "EUC_JP_Solaris". After a session of debugging I tried the following program to get the supported encoding from a simple java program.


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package javaapplication1;

import java.nio.charset.Charset;
/**
*
* @author nr194586
*/
public class Main {

/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO code application logic here
java.util.Iterator charsetIt = Charset.availableCharsets().values().iterator();
boolean flag = false;
String chSetName = null;
while(charsetIt.hasNext()){
chSetName = charsetIt.next().toString();
System.out.print(chSetName+"\t");
if(chSetName.trim().equals("EUC_JP_Solaris"))
flag = true;
}
if(flag)
System.out.println("\n\n Found Charset");
else
System.out.println("\n\n Couldn't found the charset");
}

}

I got the following output:

init:
deps-jar:
Compiling 1 source file to /home/nr194586/NetBeansProjects/JavaApplication1/build/classes
compile:
run:
Big5 Big5-HKSCS EUC-JP EUC-KR GB18030 GB2312 GBK IBM-Thai IBM00858 IBM01140 IBM01141 IBM01142 IBM01143 IBM01144 IBM01145 IBM01146 IBM01147 IBM01148 IBM01149 IBM037 IBM1026 IBM1047 IBM273 IBM277 IBM278 IBM280 IBM284 IBM285 IBM297 IBM420 IBM424 IBM437 IBM500 IBM775 IBM850 IBM852 IBM855 IBM857 IBM860 IBM861 IBM862 IBM863 IBM864 IBM865 IBM866 IBM868 IBM869 IBM870 IBM871 IBM918 ISO-2022-CN ISO-2022-JP ISO-2022-KR ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-13 ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-2 ISO-8859-3 ISO-8859-4 ISO-8859-5 ISO-8859-6 ISO-8859-7 ISO-8859-8 ISO-8859-9 JIS_X0201 JIS_X0212-1990 KOI8-R Shift_JIS TIS-620 US-ASCII UTF-16 UTF-16BE UTF-16LE UTF-8 windows-1250 windows-1251 windows-1252 windows-1253 windows-1254 windows-1255 windows-1256 windows-1257 windows-1258 windows-31j x-Big5-Solaris x-euc-jp-linux x-EUC-TW x-eucJP-Open x-IBM1006 x-IBM1025 x-IBM1046 x-IBM1097 x-IBM1098 x-IBM1112 x-IBM1122 x-IBM1123 x-IBM1124 x-IBM1381 x-IBM1383 x-IBM33722 x-IBM737 x-IBM834 x-IBM856 x-IBM874 x-IBM875 x-IBM921 x-IBM922 x-IBM930 x-IBM933 x-IBM935 x-IBM937 x-IBM939 x-IBM942 x-IBM942C x-IBM943 x-IBM943C x-IBM948 x-IBM949 x-IBM949C x-IBM950 x-IBM964 x-IBM970 x-ISCII91 x-ISO-2022-CN-CNS x-ISO-2022-CN-GB x-iso-8859-11 x-JIS0208 x-JISAutoDetect x-Johab x-MacArabic x-MacCentralEurope x-MacCroatian x-MacCyrillic x-MacDingbat x-MacGreek x-MacHebrew x-MacIceland x-MacRoman x-MacRomania x-MacSymbol x-MacThai x-MacTurkish x-MacUkraine x-MS950-HKSCS x-mswin-936 x-PCK x-windows-50220 x-windows-50221 x-windows-874 x-windows-949 x-windows-950 x-windows-iso2022jp

Couldn't found the charset

The encoding "EUC_JP_Solaris" was not there.

I had to fix the issue in the following way.

final WSDLWriter writer = WSDLGenerator.factory.newWSDLWriter();
final String outputFileName = this.wsdlFileLocation + File.separator + this.mWSDLFileName + ".wsdl";
java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(outputFileName);
final Writer sink = new java.io.OutputStreamWriter(fos,"UTF-8");
writer.writeWSDL(this.def, sink);

I felt like, for your code to be platform independent with respect to java.io, do not rely on the platform completely, rather say the encoding explicitly if the platform do not support the specified encoding.