IBM Rational Application Developer V6 Portlet Application Development and Portal Tools

12.1. Resource bundles

A resource bundle is a simple text file that contains key-value pairs. The key is used by a Java class to retrieve a locale-specific value. To provide support for a new locale, you need only create a new resource bundle with the same key names and translated values.

Example 12-1 demonstrates a base resource bundle. Example 12-2 demonstrates the resource bundle translated for Spanish. Notice the key names do not change, only the value is translated.

Example 12-1. NLSLab.properties resource bundle

welcome = hello goodbye = goodbye message = This is the NLSExample portlet

Example 12-2. NLSLab_es.propert ies resource bundle

welcome = hola goodbye = adiós message = éste es el portlet NLSExample

The file name of the resource ...