Providing Localized Messages and Labels
Messages and labels should be tailored according to the conventions of a user's language and region. There are two approaches to providing localized messages and labels in a Web application:
Provide a version of the JSP page in each of the target locales and have a controller servlet dispatch the request to the appropriate page depending on the requested locale. This approach is useful if large amounts of data on a page or an entire Web application need to be internationalized.
Isolate any locale-sensitive data on a page into resource bundles, and access the data so that the corresponding translated message is fetched automatically and inserted into the page. Thus, instead of creating strings directly in ...
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