11. Understanding internationalization

Question 1

With Struts, how can you make a resource bundle for different languages?

Answer 1

PageName_en.properties

Next to your page, put a properties file that’s named PageName_locale.

within the file place ‘property=value’

Question 2

What tag do you use to display text from your resource bundle?

Answer 2

text name=”propertyValue”

Question 3

How can you pull bundle text with OGNL?

Answer 3

Use the getText(‘property.name’) method.

Question 4

How can you provide text from a bundle in a validator message (web.xml), rather than a string literal?

Answer 4

Use the key attribute for the message.

Question 5

How can you parameterize your localization text?

Answer 5

property.value=Hello {0}

Then when putting it on the page you just pass a param, the first one will replace the {0}