Arabic resource bundle NOT loaded in WAS 7

[Abhijit Das]

hi,

I want to load the Arabic resource bundle in a Servlet and it is deployed in webSphere 7. Code is

  
   Locale locale = new Locale("ar");
   ResourceBundle resourceBundle = ResourceBundle.getBundle("WEB-INF.properties.ApplicationResources", locale);
 

resourceBundle object is EMPTY. no exception is raised.
Resourcebundle files name are
ApplicationResources_ar.properties
ApplicationResources_en.properties
ApplicationResources_iw.properties
etc
But for other languages like en, iw, ru, ja, hi... working fine.

I have seen that WAS 7 is using jdk6. Is it a problem for that. but I tried with standlalone java file , it is working fine.

Please help .

thanks
Abhijit