Internationalizing Web Clients

Internationalization is the process of preparing an application to support various languages. Localization is the process of adapting an internationalized application to support a specific language or locale. Although all client user interfaces should be internationalized and localized, it is particularly important for Web clients because of the far-reaching nature of the Web. For a good overview of internationalization and localization, see

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/i18n/index.html

In the simplest internationalized program, strings are read from a resource bundle that contains translations for the language in use. The resource bundle maps keys used by a program to the strings displayed to the user. ...

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