I wonder if it's reliable to use a construction like:

private static final Map<String, String> engMessages;
private static final Map<String, String> rusMessages;

static {
    engMessages = new HashMap<String, String> () {{
        put ("msgname", "value");
    }};
    rusMessages = new HashMap<String, String> () {{
        put ("msgname", "????????");
    }};
}

private static Map<String, String> msgSource;

static {
    msgSource = engMessages;
}

public static String msg (String msgName) {
    return msgSource.get (msgName);
}

Is there a possibility that I'll get NullPointerException because msgSource initialization block will be executed before the block which initializes engMessages?

(about why don't I do msgSource initialization at the end of upper init. block: just the matter of taste; I'll do so if the described construction is unreliable)