Spring Web MVC Locale Change
Overview
Simple example showing one way to setup internationalization. The locale can be changed by passing in a request parameter. To change the locale to french, just add the parameter 'siteLang=fr' to the URL for your site.
Spring XML Configuration
<bean id="messageSource" class="org.springframework.context.support.ResourceBundleMessageSource">
<property name="basenames">
<value>messages</value>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Declare the Interceptor -->
<bean id="localeChangeInterceptor" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor">
<property name="paramName" value="siteLang"/>
</bean>
<!-- Declare the Resolver -->
<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.SessionLocaleResolver"/>
Message Property Files
The message resources for this configuration should be located in the root of the classpath. The
messageSource bean was configured to look for resources starting with 'messages' and will look for a locale specific resource before using the default message resource.
/messages.properties
welcome.title=Welcome to LCM, the Lawn Care Management system
/messages_fr.properties
welcome.title=Bienvenu à LCM, le système de gestion de pelouses.
JSP
The JSP uses the JSTL format tags to display the internatilized message.
<%@ taglib prefix="fmt" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt" %>
<html>
<head>
<title><fmt:message key="welcome.title"/> </title>
</head>
<body>
<p><fmt:message key="welcome.title"/> </p>
</body>
</html>
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