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Internationalization

The J2EE application client and Web client distributed with the Duke’s Bank application are internationalized. All strings that appear in the user interfaces are retrieved from resource bundles. The administration client uses resource bundles named AdminMessages_*.properties. The Web client uses resource bundles named WebMessages_*.properties. Both clients are distributed with English and Spanish resource bundles.

The application client retrieves locale information from the command line. For example, to use the Spanish resource bundle, invoke the application like this:

runclient -client BankApp.ear -name BankAdmin es 

The administration client class BankAdmin creates a ResourceBundle with a locale created from the command-line ...