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Implement Internationalization and Localization in JSF

July 24, 2008 by Krishna Srinivasan Leave a Comment

Internationalization and Localization are important features for an web based application. Internationalization is implementing the features in your application to support multiple languages. Localization is creating text in a specific language that is presented through an internationalized application

also read:

  • Introduction to JSF
  • JSF Interview Questions
  • Request Processing Lifecycle phases in JSF

The following example program demonstrates very simple program for implementing this concepts. if you look into the faces-config.xml file,locale-config element is used for specifying the default locale and supported locale information. In this sample application we have provided default as English and supported as French.

Use resource-bundle element to specify the name of the properties file to be used. For example if you create a resource bundle name as Messages, then all the language letters will be suffixed with the file name.In our case French locale is named as “Messages_fr”.The default will be “en”, it is not required to specify explicitly.

[code lang=”html”]
<%@taglib prefix="f" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core"%>
<%@taglib prefix="h" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"%>
<html>
<body>
<f:view>
<h:form>
<h:commandButton value="#{msg.cancel}" action="fail"/>
<h:commandButton value="#{msg.submit}" action="success"/>
</h:form>
</f:view>
</body>
</html>

[/code]

faces-config.xml

[code lang=”xml”]
<?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’UTF-8′?>
<faces-config version="1.2"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_1_2.xsd">
<application>
<locale-config>
<default-locale>en</default-locale>
<supported-locale>fr</supported-locale>
<supported-locale>de</supported-locale>
</locale-config>
<resource-bundle>
<base-name>javabeat.net.messages.Messages</base-name>
<var>msg</var>
</resource-bundle>
</application>
</faces-config>

[/code]

Messages.properties

[code]
cancel=Cancel
submit=Submit
[/code]

Messages_fr.properties

[code]
cancel=annuler
submit=envoyer
[/code]

Filed Under: JSF Tagged With: Internationalization

About Krishna Srinivasan

He is Founder and Chief Editor of JavaBeat. He has more than 8+ years of experience on developing Web applications. He writes about Spring, DOJO, JSF, Hibernate and many other emerging technologies in this blog.

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