Internationalization in a JSP web application?

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Internationalization in a JSP web application?

In my current project, we are looking at phasing out our old presentation layer and replacing it with something more modern and more well-known. For various reasons, JSP was chosen as the technology. Possibly in conjunction with Apache Tiles. I should perhaps mention that we are using Spring in the back, if that matters at all.

Internationalization is a requirement, in particular the aspect of showing text messages in the user's language. It surprises me that there is not so much information about this as I had expected.

What I have found is the JSTL fmt namespace. Especially using fmt:message together with fmt:param. However, most references I have found regarding using this technique appear dated.

So, I am wondering if this is still recommended practice? If not, what are the alternatives? Are there any good links on the subjects, describing how to successfully achieve i18n in a web application?

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According to the Internationalization Tag Library section of The Java EE 5 Tutorial, these tags are not outdated and are the standard way to deal with i18n of JSP pages.

Pascal Thivent 2010-02-23 08:18:05

Indeed, its still used and not outdated!

Aviator 2010-02-23 08:18:51

Thanks, that's pretty much the response I was looking for. I didn't mean that the tags were outdated, just the example pages I was looking at.

waxwing 2010-02-23 12:31:21

It's however removed in the (no 3 months old yet) Java EE 6 tutorial in favour of pushing Facelets/JSF to the front. JSF supports i18n as good as JSTL did.

BalusC 2010-02-23 14:44:02

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i still using JSTL 1.2 for i18n. works like a charm. maybe not updated at all last years but is still does what is must do.

michel 2010-02-23 08:21:47

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