Internationalization in JSF

Hi All

Please could someone give me some advice on internationalization best practice for JSF. I know what I am trying to achieve but not the best method. I would appreciate any guidance.

Requirements
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I want a ResourceBundle accessible to my JSF pages, backing beans and model objects loaded from a properties file.
I dont want to load the ResourceBundle for every page or object use, I would like it stored in session scope.
The localised resource bundle has to be of the type LC_CC_VC where LC=language, CC=country and VC=variant.
I would like to be able to access messages in JSF pages using expression language.

Can anyone advise how I can achieve the above?

Where should I set the Locale in the UIViewRoot?
Do I need to set the supported locales in the XML config file?
Should I ignore the JSF features and just create my own ResourceBundle and stick it in Session scope?
How can I access messages from a resource bundle without having a specific getter?

What would you do?

Thanks for your advice in advance - there are too many options for me to pick the best way to do this.

So far I have tried this route
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Extract locale from DB after login
Create ResourceBundle in login method of backing bean
Store Resourcebundle in session scope

This is OK but it means I cannot use EL to access my messages so I am looking for another solution.

Cheers

JSF should do it all for you provided you tell it which languages you want to enable in the faces-config.xml file.

Fort example:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %>

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1" %>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../theme/Master.css" />
<title>Yada Yada Yada</title>
</head>
<f:view>
<f:loadBundle var="MyMain" basename="MyMain" />
<body>
<h

utputText value="#{MyMain.my_message_key}" />
</body>
</f:view>
</html>

and in your faces-config.xml, something like:

<application>
<locale-config>
<default-locale>en</default-locale>
<supported-locale>fr</supported-locale>
<supported-locale>de</supported-locale>
<supported-locale>es</supported-locale>
<supported-locale>nl</supported-locale>
...
</locale-config>
</application>

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If a view is not associated with a locale explicity, JSF uses "Accept-Language" header in request data from browser to find out the locale to be picked. It compares the header's values with the ones configured in faces-config.xml and if no match is found default locale is selected.

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i am coding a "switch language" into an app,
and my idea is that i have a bean that stores the language setting.
as default, the Accept-language should be used,
i.e. in the bean, i would either returned the user defined lanuage or the value of Accept-language.

how can i read out the value of Accept-language from my java code?

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