Translate your website into different languages

Question

Well,
i wanted to have my website available in different languages.
(Eg. mandarin, french, japanese, german...).
I heard that there is coding sample available on the internet that show you a sample of how to code out the translating tool, to be used. Or did anyone of you here knows the way?
Axile

Answer 1

Hi Robert,
I have property files Inter.properties,Inter_en.properties in WEB-INF/classes .
In web.xml :
<context-param>
<param-name>
javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.LocalizationContext
</param-name>
<param-value>
Inter
</param-value>
</context-param>
Test.jsp:
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt" %>
<fmt:setBundle basename="Inter" var="Inter" scope="session"/>
When I try to execute the jsp file I receive the following message:
type Exception report
message Internal Server Error
description The server encountered an internal error (Internal Server Error) that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: An error occurred while evaluating custom action attribute "bundle" with value "Inter": Attempt to convert String "Inter" to type "javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.LocalizationContext", but there is no PropertyEditor for that type
What is wrong with my settings?
I think that in web.xml :
<param-value>
Inter
</param-value>
is the problem.
Thanks
Daniel
the proper way is to use tags for this. proceeding:
get you a copy of the JSTL (jsp standard template
library).
define a property file for each language like you do
for any resource bundle, e.g. text.properties,
text_en.properties, text_en_US.properties etc. and put
it to your java class files in the web application
(i.e. WEB-INF/classes or
WEB-INF/lib/your_archive.jar).
define an initialization parameter in web.xml with
param-name
"javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.localizationContext" and
param-value that points to the properties file
(without the extension)
then use the tag lib in your jsp's and use tag
"message" to return the message texts. you should set
the current user's or session's Locale. this is an
example include file that you should statically
include in every jsp:<%@ taglib
uri="/WEB-INF/c.tld" prefix="c" %>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/fmt.tld" prefix="fmt" %>
<c:if test="${ ( ! empty user ) && ( ! empty
user.locale ) }">
<fmt:setLocale value="${ user.locale }"/>
</c:if>this snippet assumes there is typically
a bean "user" in the session, which has a property
"locale" that returns a java.util.Locale.
robert