Internationalization of logging and error messages for the server side (cont'd)

I ended my previous blog with "Isn't there a better way"? Well... how would I like to use error messages in Java source code? I would simply want to write something like this:

String msg = msgcat.get("F1231: Could not open file {1} in directory {0}: {2}", dir, file, ex);
throw new IOException(msg, ex);

The advantages are clear:

1. No switching to a different file to add the error message
2. The error message is visible right there in the source code -- easy to review!
3. It's easy to see that the arguments in {0}, {1} are correct   
   

But how are would we deal with the same error message (same error code) being used in multiple places in the source? Well... there's not a good anwer for that. Fortunately, error messages tend to be unique, i.e. rarely would the same error message be reused.

How is this source file internationalized? We need a tool! The tool will

1. locate all error messages in the code base
   
2. generate properties files for all desired languages if they don't exist     
3. print out a list of all properties files that need to be localized

Here's what I would like to see as the output of the tool:

msgs_en_US.properties
# AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED# DO NOT EDIT
# com.stc.jms.server.SegmentMgr
F1231 = Could not open file {1} in directory {0}: {2}

and   

msgs_nl_NL.properties
# com.stc.jms.server.SegmentMgr
# F1231 = Could not open file {1} in directory {0}: {2}
# ;;TODO:NEW MESSAGE;;F1231 = 

so that a human translator can easily add the translations to the foreign properties files. As you can see, it includes the location (Java class) where the message was encountered.

msgs_nl_NL.properties
# com.stc.jms.server.SegmentMgr
# F1231 = Could not open file {1} in directory {0}: {2}
F1231 = Bestand {1} in lijst {0} kon niet geopend worden: {2}

Ofcourse the tool would have a way of handling if you would change the error message in the source code. The translated properties file would look like this:   

msgs_nl_NL.properties
# com.stc.jms.server.SegmentMgr
# F1231 = File {1} in directory {0} could not be opened: {2}
# F1231 = Could not open file {1} in directory {0}: {2}
# ;;TODO: MESSAGE CHANGED;;
F1231 = Bestand {1} in lijst {0} kon niet geopend worden: {2}

Any ideas on how to build this tool?